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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
Only the Beginning of the Sharpness Kay Ryan 2024
A Sonnet Jos Charles 2023
A Valentine That Can’t Be Sent Rosmarie Waldrop 2023
The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third Mark Akenside 1744
From “Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts” Carolina Ebeid 2022
By the Lake Richard O. Moore 2010
[Whenever I Make a New Poem,] Lew Welch 2012
Rest House Brandon Shimoda 2022
Journey Leopoldo Lugones 1925
Atlantic City Waiter Countee Cullen 1925
Winter Constance Merritt 2020
The Sentence Nathan McClain 2019
Derrida/Coleman Taylor Johnson 2019
Invisible Globe Arthur Sze 2018
The Dreamer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1907
Dirt Being Dirt Carl Phillips 2017
A Fixed Idea Amy Lowell 2016
Let Muddy Water Sit and It Grows Clear Ted Mathys 2015
The Barnacle and the Gray Whale Cecilia Llompart 2014
Prophecy Dana Gioia 2012

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