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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
Ash Ode Dean Young 2008
Ground Swell Mark Jarman 1997
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Rumi Joseph Fasano
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
The Spirit of Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1886
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
All the Time Blues Villanelle Tim Seibles 2022
A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood Suzi F. Garcia 2021
The Disappeared Cecilia Vicuña 2021
a dream of foxes Lucille Clifton 1996

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