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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
Wine Tasting Kim Addonizio 2013
Gulls William Carlos Williams 1917
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only) Sharon Olds 2011
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us Shane McCrae 2011
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Branches Jean Valentine 2009
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982

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