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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
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only) James Wright 1964
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925
Albany Ron Silliman 1983
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
Buddhist Barbie Denise Duhamel 1997
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2002
Blue May Swenson 1994
I Have Been Living Jane Mead 2000
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962

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