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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
War and Hell, XVI [I am a great inventor] Ernest Crosby 1902
Untitled [1950 June 27] Don Mee Choi 2011
My Pentagon Heather Christle 2011
Eadwacer Anonymous 1972
Poem [Daniel Boone] William Carlos Williams 1953
last swan of avon Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2011
Letter to Arafat Elana Bell 2011
We Build a Barn And Read Reader’s Digest Tomaž Šalamun 2011
A Wedding at Cana, Lebanon, 2007 Tom Sleigh 2011
Mosul David Hernandez 2011
The Coming of War: Actaon Ezra Pound 1915
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
The War After the War Debora Greger 2010
Phantom Noise Brian Turner 2010
Adjectives of Order Alexandra Teague 2010
Before the Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2010
Dear Michael (2) Mark McMorris 2010
John Brown’s Body [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 Marvin Bell 2007

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