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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
Engines Within the Throne Cathy Park Hong 2012
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
The New Year Emma Lazarus 1882
Heirloom Nikky Finney 2011
Summer Amy Lowell 1912
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only) Elizabeth Bishop 1997
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
Rime Riche Monica Ferrell 2010
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] David Antin 1993
Spring in New Hampshire Claude McKay 1920
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
Isolation: To Marguerite Matthew Arnold 1857

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