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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
Ghost Elephants Jean Valentine 2012
1492 Emma Lazarus 1888
Heirloom Nikky Finney 2011
Guillaume Apollinaire Gertrude Stein 1913
Again a Solstice Jennifer Chang 2010
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only) Adrienne Rich 1997
The Nurse Michael Blumenthal 2011
A Poem Robert Creeley 2006
Traveling Light Linda Pastan 2011
Water Edwin Torres 2010
The Emperor Matthew Rohrer 2010
Vocation Sandra Beasley 2010
Reminiscence Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard Homero Aridjis 2010
A Story Philip Levine 2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only) Richard Hugo 1969
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] Gertrude Stein 1914
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Picking Up Evelyn Duncan 2008
Couture Mark Doty 1995

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