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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
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only) Adrienne Rich 1997
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree D. H. Lawrence 1920
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011
South Jack Gilbert 2010
About Foam Caroline Bergvall 2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
A Windmill Makes A Statement Cate Marvin 2007
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
Tender Buttons [A Box] Gertrude Stein 1914
Poem at Thirty Michael Ryan 2004
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988

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