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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
For Telly the Fish Toi Derricotte 2011
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014
Parties: A Hymn of Hate Dorothy Parker 1916
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage Wallace Stevens 1919
August Algernon Charles Swinburne 1904
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011
Night Baseball Michael Blumenthal 1984
Where I Live Maxine Kumin 2010
The Love Unfeigned Geoffrey Chaucer 1380
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Museum Glyn Maxwell 2000
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth 1996
Epitaph Eric Pankey 2003

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