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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 Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Man Eating Jane Kenyon 2005
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
Call Us Sally Van Doren 2012
The Boat-Header Henri Cole 2012
Mist Valley James Longenbach 2012
To Last D. A. Powell 2012
RAG SMELL. FIRE Joan Houlihan 2012
Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self J. Michael Martinez 2012
Morning Antlers Arthur Sze 2012
Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera [excerpt] David Trinidad 2012
The Hot Dog Poem Jane Barnes 1981
Summary Wednesday Matthew Pennock 2012
The Practice Aaron Shurin 2012
The Moon in Your Breath Amy King 2012
Court Gestures [excerpt] Kristi Maxwell 2012
Perceiving is the same as receiving and it is the same as responding. Brian Teare 2010
Again a Solstice Jennifer Chang 2010
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010

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