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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 Study of Happiness (audio only) Kenneth Koch 1969
The Mark (audio only) Louise Bogan 1968
Love in Boots (audio only) John Ashbery 1994
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only) James Wright 1964
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda 2010
The Apple Trees at Olema Robert Hass 2010
Gold River Catie Rosemurgy 2010
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
my dream about being white Lucille Clifton 1989
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
My Father's Leaving Ira Sadoff 1978
Oklahoma City: The Aftermath Ira Sadoff 1995
Once I Could Say Ira Sadoff 2012
[My Visitor from Nebraska] (audio only) Harryette Mullen 2009
[Hiking up Topanga Canyon] (audio only) Harryette Mullen 2009
Door in the Mountain (audio only) Jean Valentine 2009
[Toward the empty earth] (audio only) Osip Mandelstam 2009

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