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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
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Albany Ron Silliman 1983
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
The Satyr’s Heart Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2004
In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2002
Photosynthesis Ashley M. Jones 2021
I Come from a Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen Kari Gunter-Seymour 2020
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58) William Shakespeare 1904
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall Christian Campbell 2018
The Broken Man’s Permission Aaron Coleman 2018
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026
Contemplations While Holding Sunchokes During a Blizzard Yesenia Montilla 2026
“I came here to be a poet …” Michael Montlack 2026
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
Tomatoes Katrina Vandenberg 2026

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