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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
Prayer on Aladdin's Lamp Marcus Wicker 2017
Kafka’s Axe & Michael’s Vest Chen Chen 2017
Force Visibility Solmaz Sharif 2016
The Living Teaching Dana Levin 2016
An Instructor’s Dream Bill Knott 2007
Everyday Escapes Dean Young 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015
On Hearing That My Poems Were Being Studied in a Distant Place Hyam Plutzik 2014
The Dream of a Common Language Leigh Stein 2014
New Make Chris Hosea 2013
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School Christopher Bursk 2006
With Tenure David Lehman 1990
The Teacher Hilarie Jones 2002
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998

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