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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning] Harryette Mullen 2012
Christel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1902
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
Ghost Elephants Jean Valentine 2012
Swell Hoa Nguyen 2011
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
About Foam Caroline Bergvall 2011
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
RPT MC-60 00.27 8 Tan Lin 2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Coffee and Oranges Joel Brouwer 2009
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817

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