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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
The Buttonhook Mary Jo Salter 2014
Thek Thom Donovan 2014
In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo Linda Pastan 2014
On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor 2014
Post-Dissertation-Intervention (i.) Ronaldo V. Wilson 2014
Teach me I am forgotten by the dead Ralph Waldo Emerson 1831
On this Very Street in Belgrade Charles Simic 2013
How Palestinians Keep Warm Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Arabic Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
The Multitude Ellen Hinsey 2013
Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory) Joan Naviyuk Kane 2013
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only) Derek Walcott 1964
Once More, with Feeling Luis Cernuda 2010
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
Deer Dancer Joy Harjo 1990
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972

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