Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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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Title	Author	Year
I Sat in the Sun	Jane Hirshfield	2016
The Woman, The Tiger	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
OH NATURE	Bruce Weigl	2016
A fourteen-line poem on healing	Julie Carr	2016
Peony	Marilyn Chin	2016
Trailing Clouds of Glory	Vijay Seshadri	2016
Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949	Rachel McKibbens	2016
There Is a Bird in My Mouth	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2015
Stridulation Sonnet	Jessica Jacobs	2015
Sunrise	Lizette Woodworth Reese	2015
He Made This Screen	Marianne Moore	2015
Why I Am Obsessed with Horses	Michael McGriff	2015
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
from Gossamurmur (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2013
This Magic Moment	David Kirby	2014
Three Mathew Brady Photographs	Eric Pankey	2014
Names	Fady Joudah	2014
Old Folks' Jokes	Ravi Shankar	2014
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013

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