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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
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
The Gaffe C. K. Williams 2010
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
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
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior Ben Jonson 1640
Envoi William Meredith 1997
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals Norman Dubie 1983
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
The Dirt Eaters Virgil Suárez 2005

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