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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
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth Jeffrey McDaniel 2008
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Love Incarnate Frank Bidart 1997
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
A Newborn Girl at Passover Nan Cohen 1998
The Blade of Nostalgia Chase Twichell 1991
In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2002
The Woodspurge Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1856
I Have Been Living Jane Mead 2000
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
At Deep Midnight Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Deportation Brenda Cárdenas 2025
Ex Nothing Cecilia Vicuña 2026
​​In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.] Jimin Seo 2026
New Tradition/新传统 Evan Wang 2026
“I came here to be a poet …” Michael Montlack 2026
[And isn’t everything risk?] Gregory Orr 2026

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