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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
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
Bomb Crater Sky Lam Thi My Da 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
Gospel Philip Levine 2001
Before the Snake Nathaniel Tarn 2002
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters 1916
One A.M. [excerpt] David Young 1994
Of Politics, & Art Norman Dubie 2000
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
The Monk Monica Sok 2026
Refrain Jameson Fitzpatrick 2026
The Bricklayer Luis Chaves 2026

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