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
Vision	Robert Penn Warren	1922
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out	Charles Jensen	2012
At the Piano	Thomas Hardy	1917
Mosul	David Hernandez	2011
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
Insomnia	Alicia Ostriker	2009
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
From “Nox” [gentes]	Anne Carson	2010
To Sleep	Henri Cole	2007
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006

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