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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
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
The Children’s Hour Li-Young Lee 2010
Translations Michael Dickman 2010
From the Lives of My Friends Michael Dickman 2010
Cerrada Medellin Blues (First Solo) [1st Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1995
Amber Alert Jordan Davis 2010
Mostly Read The Luna Moth Jordan Davis 2010
The Gaffe C. K. Williams 2010
Details for Paterson William Carlos Williams 1988
The Tower W. B. Yeats 1928
My Aunts Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Early Memory January Gill O’Neil 2010
The Keeper's Voice Mike Carson 2010
Fireflies Fred Chappell 2010
Soliloquy, Act 6 [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2001
Fuel Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
To Sleep Henri Cole 2007
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
I Have Never Been Anything Like Pink Kazuko Shiraishi 1982
deer & salt block Joshua Marie Wilkinson 2009

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