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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
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
To be the thing Dorothea Lasky 2011
Back in Seaside Shanna Compton 2011
[Untitled] J. Michael Martinez 2011
One With Others [Not the mental lethargy in which the days enveloped her] C. D. Wright 2011
One With Others [I take one more drive across town thinking] C. D. Wright 2011
ninth: a conversation between Annabot and the Human Machine on the subject of overpowering emotion Anna Moschovakis 2011
Death as a Way of Life [It began:] Anna Moschovakis 2011
Death as a Way of Life [We wonder at our shifting capacities, keep] Anna Moschovakis 2011
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
619 Kate Greenstreet 2011
Forever War Nate Pritts 2010
The Pressure of the Moment Dara Barrois/Dixon 2011
I’d Like a Little Flashlight Rachel Zucker 2011
Poem Charles Bernstein 1978
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
Be Kind Michael Blumenthal 2011
From “Easter Monday” Ted Berrigan 2011
Samurai Song Robert Pinsky 2011

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