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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
From the Long Sad Party Mark Strand 1973
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
My Father’s Geography Afaa Michael Weaver 1992
The Transparent Man Anthony Hecht 1991
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
Making a Fist Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos Anthony Hecht 1990
The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats 1890
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Kore Robert Creeley 1991
The Center of Attention Daniel Hoffman 1970
To Elsie William Carlos Williams 1962
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Ground Swell Mark Jarman 1997
Transfiguration (audio only) Mark Jarman 1997
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Duende Tracy K. Smith 2004

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