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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
Night Sky Don Bogen 2019
The Old Woman & the Moon Michael Bazzett 2018
A Shropshire Lad, X A. E. Housman 2018
My Father as Cartographer Natasha Trethewey 2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II) John Donne 2018
say it with your whole black mouth Danez Smith 2018
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Faggot Poetics Cameron Awkward-Rich 2018
Paris Willa Cather 1903
Wristwatch Ron Padgett 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
Dear Exile, Mai Der Vang 2017
The Captive Dove Anne Brontë 2017
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Echolocation Sally Bliumis-Dunn 2016
Fiddleheads Maureen Seaton 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996

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