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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
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself CAConrad 2012
to have been, instead Stephen Motika 2012
It Was Going on Five in the Morning André Breton 2003
playing with fire Evie Shockley 2011
The Hills, 5 Kate Durbin 2011
Images Richard Aldington 1916
The Chicago Poem Jerome Rothenberg 1986
For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine] William Carlos Williams 1988
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Morning at the Window T. S. Eliot 1917
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye Gerald Stern 2010
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
How Simile Works Albert Goldbarth 2009
We Address Norma Cole 2009
Talking About New Orleans Jayne Cortez 2009
Atlantic City Sunday Morning Gregory Pardlo 2007
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913

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