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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
Problem-Not-Solving Anne Waldman 2014
In Our Late Empire, Love Malachi Black 2014
From “One With Others” C. D. Wright 2011
from "We Do the Polis" David Buuck 2014
Rite de Passage and the Irony of the Sharpshooter John Kinsella 2014
A Legacy Prageeta Sharma 2014
The Throats of Guantanamo Katie Ford 2013
Modern Declaration Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Dear Corporation, Adam Fell 2012
After the Election Sarah Messer 2012
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman 1891
The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt] Nikky Finney 2011
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out Charles Jensen 2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
Left Nikky Finney 2011
Fellini in Purgatory Jean Valentine 2004
Poem for Larry Craig Kenneth Goldsmith 2007
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind Carl Sandburg 1922

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