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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
Weave in, My Hardy Life Walt Whitman 2014
Coming and Going Tony Hoagland 2013
jasper texas 1998 Lucille Clifton 1991
Coda Ezra Pound 1916
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
The Radio Animals Matthea Harvey 2010
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000

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