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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
In the Park Maxine Kumin 1989
Michael's Wine Sandra Alcosser 1998
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos Anthony Hecht 1990
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 David Wagoner 1966
The Something Charles Simic 1996
Francesco and Clare David St. John 1991
Twenties 26 Jackson Mac Low 1991
Call Me Ishmael Jackson Mac Low 1972
Birdcall Alicia Ostriker 2005
Blue Oxen Dara Barrois/Dixon 2005
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts Sydney Lea 2005
Milton David Groff 2013
Introduction to the World Matthea Harvey 2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom George Moses Horton 1828
Checkmate Lucio Mariani 2003
Diary [Surface] Rachel Zucker 2003
The Poem Daniel Hoffman 2003
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly Mary Szybist 2003
Artificer Czesław Miłosz 1931
A Certain Slant of Sunlight Ted Berrigan 1994

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