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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
Superstition Amy Lowell 1919
Red Wand Sandra Simonds 2012
Winter Heavens George Meredith 1888
Shepheardes Calendar [October] Edmund Spenser 1579
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Instead of Losing John Ashbery 2011
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
The Horrid Voice of Science Vachel Lindsay 1919
Poem [on getting a card] William Carlos Williams 1953
The Hills, 5 Kate Durbin 2011
Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance John Cage 1957
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten Péter Kántor 2010
Near misses Laura Kasischke 2011
White Trees Nathalie Handal 2011
Traveling Light Linda Pastan 2011
Our Valley Philip Levine 2009
The Very Nervous Family Sabrina Orah Mark 2011
Kristin’s Dream in November Bernadette Mayer 2011
Acrobat Elise Paschen 2010

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