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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
Near Miss Fanny Howe 2017
Earth Day on the Bay Gary Soto 2016
Experience Carl Sandburg 2016
The Dreams of the Dreamer Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
No Hands Carol Muske-Dukes 2016
Trans- Rita Dove 2015
From Tanka Diary Harryette Mullen 2014
Poetry Amy Lowell 1919
Get Up, Please David Kirby 2013
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Vocabulary Jason Schneiderman 2012
Engines Within the Throne Cathy Park Hong 2012
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer] William Shakespeare 1623
Swell Hoa Nguyen 2011
At the Equinox Arthur Sze 2011
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us Shane McCrae 2011
Rime Riche Monica Ferrell 2010
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888

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