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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.

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Scumble Rae Armantrout 2006
If a Wilderness Carl Phillips 2007
From “Overview is a Place” Claudia Rankine 2001
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Far and Away [excerpt] Fanny Howe 2007
Oil & Steel Henri Cole 2007
Bolshevescent Peter Gizzi 2007
Swarm Nick Flynn 2002
Monument (audio only) Natasha Trethewey 2006
Friday’s Child (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
First Things First (audio only) W. H. Auden 1960
How We Did It (audio only) Muriel Rukeyser 1976
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M. (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
Thank You For Saying Thank You (audio only) Charles Bernstein 2001
Death Is the Cool Night (audio only) Charles Bernstein 2001
Present Tense (audio only) Harryette Mullen 2001
Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements (audio only) Lucie Brock-Broido 2004
What [The flower sermon] Ron Silliman 1988
Albany Ron Silliman 1983

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