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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
The Three Times Alfred Corn 1999
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
Speaking In Tongues Mary Rose O'Reilley 2005
Passover Mary Rose O'Reilley 2006
My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke 1942
Helen in Egypt, Pallinode, Books I & III (audio only) H.D. 1961
I'm a Fool to Love You Cornelius Eady 1997
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell 1969
A Silence Amy Clampitt 1997
What Will You Be? Dennis Lee 1977
Sexism David Lehman 1996
Francesco and Clare David St. John 1991
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
Spring is like a perhaps hand E. E. Cummings 1923
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Gettysburg Herman Melville 1866
Post-Modernism James Galvin 1997
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994

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