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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 Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair Jackson Mac Low 1999
Gospel Philip Levine 2001
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991
The Happiness Jack Hirschman 2002
Apart (Les Separes) Louis Simpson 1997
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
Compensation Claude McKay 1912
Sonnet Willa Cather 1903
One Moment Touching All the Others Jeff Hardin 2017
Thursday 9/13/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
Consolation of Poetry António Osório 2026
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
Poem for Grown Children Kathleen Driskell 2025
Hawk Hour Mark Turcotte 2011
The Monk Monica Sok 2026

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