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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
Diana of the Hunt Forceythe Willson 1867
Engines Within the Throne Cathy Park Hong 2012
Fifteen Years of Darkness Liu Xiaobo 2012
The New Year Emma Lazarus 1882
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only) Sharon Olds 2011
Wall Street at Night Lola Ridge 1920
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
The Radio Animals Matthea Harvey 2010
We Manage Most When We Manage Small Linda Gregg 2008
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth] Virgil 2006
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy Jack Spicer 2008

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