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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
Variation on a Theme W. S. Merwin 2013
Muffin of Sunsets Elaine Equi 2013
Twenty Questions Jim Moore 2012
Vocabulary Jason Schneiderman 2012
Fifteen Years of Darkness Liu Xiaobo 2012
South Jack Gilbert 2010
Where I Live Maxine Kumin 2010
Portrait d'une Femme Ezra Pound 1912
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Shawl Albert Goldbarth 2007
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006

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