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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 Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz Alicia Ostriker 2016
Closer Peter Covino 2014
Flush or Faunus Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2013
How We Found Our Way Matthew Thorburn 2013
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas Juan Felipe Herrera 2010
Goldfish Are Ordinary Stacie Cassarino 2009
Dregs César Vallejo 2007
Weary Rings César Vallejo 2007
LXI César Vallejo 2007
XIII César Vallejo 2007
That Sure is My Little Dog Eleanor Lerman 2005
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell 1969
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog Judith Viorst 1981
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Ode on the death of a favorite cat Thomas Gray 1748
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
Jogging with Oscar Walt McDonald 1998

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