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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
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself CAConrad 2012
Directions for Lines that will Remain Unfinished Sarah Messer 2012
Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life] Bruce Smith 2012
Brief Lives [excerpt] Ken Chen 2011
Sculptures of Virginia Woolf Michael Robins 2011
Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page Cate Marvin 2011
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
Poem [on getting a card] William Carlos Williams 1953
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Poem Rachel Zucker 2009
We Build a Barn And Read Reader’s Digest Tomaž Šalamun 2011
Book Loaned to Tom Andrews Bobby C. Rogers 2011
The Libraries Didn’t Burn Elaine Equi 2011
Burning of the Three Fires Jeanne Marie Beaumont 2011
The Reader (audio only) Richard Wilbur 2003
Books Gerald Stern 2010
Canzone Delle Preposizioni Caroline Knox 2008
Wheeling Motel Franz Wright 2010
Stet Stet Stet Ange Mlinko 2010

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