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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
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Green Sees Things in Waves August Kleinzahler 1998
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
Round Tom Sleigh 2007
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
Scumble Rae Armantrout 2006
If a Wilderness Carl Phillips 2007
From “Overview is a Place” Claudia Rankine 2001
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Far and Away [excerpt] Fanny Howe 2007
Oil & Steel Henri Cole 2007
Bolshevescent Peter Gizzi 2007
Swarm Nick Flynn 2002
Monument (audio only) Natasha Trethewey 2006
Friday’s Child (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
First Things First (audio only) W. H. Auden 1960
How We Did It (audio only) Muriel Rukeyser 1976
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M. (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
Present Tense (audio only) Harryette Mullen 2001

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