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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
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy Jack Spicer 2008
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Tender Buttons [A Box] Gertrude Stein 1914
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003
Gospel Philip Levine 2001
Passing Through Albuquerque John Balaban 1991
Amo Amas Amat Bernardine Evaristo 2001
A Hermit Thrush Amy Clampitt 1997
A Brief History of Condensation Trails Daniela Danz 2026
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
Hawk Hour Mark Turcotte 2011
Refrain Jameson Fitzpatrick 2026
Fidelity William Ward Butler 2026
Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges Sam Sax 2025
my dream about the second coming Lucille Clifton 1987
Willow, Stop Weeping Sally Wen Mao 2025

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