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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
Shepheardes Calendar [October] Edmund Spenser 1579
Swell Hoa Nguyen 2011
Beggar Woman Charles Reznikoff 1921
The Nurse Michael Blumenthal 2011
A Poem Robert Creeley 2006
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall Ross Gay 2011
The Truth About the Present John Lane 2011
A Language Susan Stewart 2016
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison Danielle Pafunda 2010
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
My Aunts Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Reminiscence Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Walt Whitman 1891
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
Summer Past John Gray 1893
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1975

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