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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
The Bathers, Cassis Garrett Hongo 2018
Song of the Open Road, 4 Walt Whitman 2016
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016
Murano Paisley Rekdal 2016
Song of the Open Road, 1 Walt Whitman 2016
Cape Coast Castle Yusef Komunyakaa 2010
This is Lagos John Koethe 2009
Snowball Journal Phillip Lopate 2009
Air In The Epic Brenda Hillman 2004
What He Thought Heather McHugh 1994
Vacation Rita Dove 1994
Souvenir Beth Ann Fennelly 2004
Outskirts Tomas Tranströmer 2004
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover] Kabir 2004
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Notes on a Visit to Le Tuc D'Audoubert Clayton Eshleman 2000

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