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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
Populating Heaven Maureen N. McLane 2008
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Eating Poetry Mark Strand 1980
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011
For What Binds Us Jane Hirshfield 1988
The Bell Zygmunt Jane Hirshfield 2006
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Embers (audio only) Henri Cole 2007
Birthday (audio only) Henri Cole 2007
Sycamores (audio only) Henri Cole 2007
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
Drawing from Life Reginald Shepherd 1996
Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale Reginald Shepherd 2003
Maroon Canoe Oni Buchanan 2008

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