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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
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream Charlotte Brontë 1846
Dressing Down Kamilah Aisha Moon 2016
The Dark Hills Edwin Arlington Robinson 1920
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
I Got Heaven ... Garrett Hongo 2014
Flush or Faunus Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2013
Ebb Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata Natasha Trethewey 2012
Heart Condition Jericho Brown 2011
Joy in the Woods Claude McKay 1920
Poem Charles Bernstein 1978
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
from Blue Dark Deborah Landau 2011
A Wedding Toast (audio only) Richard Wilbur 2003
Alive Naomi Shihab Nye 2010
Health Rafael Campo 2010
Earthy Anecdote Wallace Stevens 1923
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009

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