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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
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird James Hoch 2018
Hive Kevin Young 2017
The World's Wanderers Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
The Still Small Voice John Rollin Ridge 2017
Sonnet w/ Rose Matthew Yeager 2017
A Simple Trajectory May Yang 2017
it won’t be a bullet Danez Smith 2017
Demeter H.D. 2017
From a Park Bench Patricia Hooper 2017
Wristwatch Ron Padgett 2017
Exceeding Beringia Joan Naviyuk Kane 2016
@ the Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Wonder as Wander Sharon Olds 2012
Dear Melissa: [a curve billed thrasher] TC Tolbert 2016
For love, Jean Valentine 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life Henry David Thoreau 2014
At the Window D. H. Lawrence 2014
Fruit Cocktail in Light Syrup Amy Gerstler 2014
Mag Carl Sandburg 1916

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