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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
Starlight William Meredith 1997
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
The New Higher John Ashbery 2005
Lullaby Lyubomir Levchev 2006
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989
The Embrace Mark Doty 1998
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
Milton David Groff 2013
Homosexuality Spencer Reece 2004
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
Blue May Swenson 1994
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back Marilyn Hacker 1994
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop 1979

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