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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
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
R&B (audio only) A. Van Jordan 2007
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Bucolics [LIX] Maurice Manning 2007
Albany Ron Silliman 1983
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
Bedtime Story Wanda Coleman 1993
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
Lawless Pantoum Denise Duhamel 2005
Looking for Omar E. Ethelbert Miller 2004
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Before the Snake Nathaniel Tarn 2002
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
I Have Been Living Jane Mead 2000
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 Richard Howard 1994
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
Equinox with River Otter Erin Malone 2024
Abecedarian Beginning with Alif Safia Elhillo 2026
The Iliad, Book XX [The Warrior’s Return] Homer 2023

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