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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
Earth Took of Earth Anonymous 1000
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
The Radio Animals Matthea Harvey 2010
The Gaffe C. K. Williams 2010
Electricity Geoffrey Nutter 2009
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
It is the time of rain and snow Izumi Shikibu 1955
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Post-Modernism James Galvin 1997
Hard Night Christian Wiman 2005

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