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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
Imperatives Marilyn Buck 2012
By Night with Torch and Spear Timothy Donnelly 2011
Eadwacer Anonymous 1972
Instead of Losing John Ashbery 2011
The Descent of Man Vijay Seshadri 2010
I Too Was Loved by Daphne Judith Baumel 2010
There are things this poem would rather not say: Elana Bell 2011
Book Loaned to Tom Andrews Bobby C. Rogers 2011
The Cold War [excerpt] Kathleen Ossip 2011
The Hesperides Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1832
When I Am in the Kitchen Jeanne Marie Beaumont 2010
Road Trip Kurt Brown 2010
Tocqueville [excerpt] Khaled Mattawa 2010
Cleanliness is next to godliness Nin Andrews 2010
My Life as a Subject Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Alamogordo 1945 Adriano Spatola 2008
Lettuce Abraham Cowley 1711
William James, Henry James Sarah Gridley 2010
Abraham Davenport [excerpt] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
From “Nox [gentes]” Anne Carson 2010

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