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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
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth 1996
Die Muhle Brennt—Richard Richard Matthews 2002
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
From “Meditations of the Old Young Man” [2. What it was to live ...] Stéphane Bouquet 2026
Deportation Brenda Cárdenas 2025
Ex Nothing Cecilia Vicuña 2026
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026
The Iliad, Book VI [The Price of Honor] Homer 2023
Snowbird Caridad Moro-Gronlier 2026
[And isn’t everything risk?] Gregory Orr 2026
My mother looks Manuel Iris 2025
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.] W. H. Auden 1930
The Artist Orpheus Donald Justice 1995
war Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad 2025
In Absence—This Unknowing Bianca Stone 2022
From “Migrations” Gloria Gervitz 2025
The Lord is American W. J. Lofton 2025
Ways to Measure Trees MaKshya Tolbert 2025

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