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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
Much Tattooed Sailor Aboard USS New Jersey Jehanne Dubrow 2014
Lion Felling a Bull Robyn Schiff 2014
Song of Quietness Robinson Jeffers 1916
Atavism Elinor Wylie 1921
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage Wallace Stevens 1919
Window Seat: Providence to New York City Jacqueline Osherow 2012
Black Glass Soliloquy Ben Mirov 2012
Mars Poetica Wyn Cooper 2012
Essay on Adam Robert Bringhurst 2012
Sita Jason Schneiderman 2012
At the Equinox Arthur Sze 2011
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall Ross Gay 2011
Bermudas Andrew Marvell 1681
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda 2010
Homosexuality Henri Cole 2007
The Last Slow Days of Summer Phillip Lopate 2009
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey 1913

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