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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
Irritable Mystic Nathaniel Mackey 1993
Song of the Andoumboulou: 21 Nathaniel Mackey 1998
Telling the Bees Deborah Digges 2004
Sally’s Hair John Koethe 2006
Posited James McMichael 2006
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Rwanda Poems [excerpt] (audio only) Kamau Brathwaite 1994
Privilege of Being (audio only) Robert Hass 1988
Yonder Rae Armantrout 2007
It Was Raining in Delft Peter Gizzi 2003
A Slice of Wedding Cake (audio only) Robert Graves 1966
Mood Indigo (audio only) William Matthews 1970
The Nailhead (audio only) David Ignatow 1964
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke 1942
Helen in Egypt, Pallinode, Books I & III (audio only) H.D. 1961
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
My Father’s Geography Afaa Michael Weaver 1992
The Transparent Man Anthony Hecht 1991
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998

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