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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
Inscription Herman Melville 1864
Riding Cynthia Cruz 2019
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19) William Shakespeare 1904
Blues on Yellow Marilyn Chin 2018
The Past Is the Present Marianne Moore 1917
now i’m bologna José Olivarez 2018
Starlings Maggie Smith 2018
The Code Robert Frost 2018
Rootless Jenny Xie 2018
Roses Only Marianne Moore 1921
Pedestrian Samuel Amadon 2017
Watch Us Elocute Marcus Wicker 2017
The City is Peopled H.D. 2017
The Perfect Poem Kaveh Akbar 2017
Home-Coming Léonie Adams 2017
Blue Vase Cynthia Zarin 2016
Haunted Sonnet Hoa Nguyen 2015
Dark Matter and Dark Energy Alicia Ostriker 2015
Aspiration Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1910
I Got Heaven ... Garrett Hongo 2014

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