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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
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014
In the City of Night John Gould Fletcher 1921
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata Natasha Trethewey 2012
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
canvas and mirror Evie Shockley 2010
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree D. A. Powell 2010
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
Noel Anne Porter 2006
Weary Rings César Vallejo 2007
To His Coy Love Michael Drayton 1606
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Seven Years Daisy Fried 2006
The White Room Charles Simic 1990
Beach Glass Amy Clampitt 1997
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant 2003
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror Agha Shahid Ali 1991
Song H.D. 1921

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