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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
If It All Went up in Smoke George Oppen 1978
Blue or Green James Galvin 2009
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Ode on Dictionaries Barbara Hamby 2009
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
There Is No Audience for Poetry Kevin Prufer 2008
Art Class James Galvin 1997
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Workshop Billy Collins 1995
In the old days a poet once said Ko Un 2006
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
The Language of Love Rodney Jones 2006
What He Thought Heather McHugh 1994
Dawn James Laughlin 2005
Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004

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