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
The White Room	Charles Simic	1990
April Inventory	W. D. Snodgrass	1957
With Tenure	David Lehman	1990
Kore	Robert Creeley	1991
The Something	Charles Simic	1996
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	Robert Duncan	1960
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
The Pleasures of Fear	Judith Ortíz Cofer	2005
Someone	Dennis O’Driscoll	2005
Another Attempt at Rescue	M. L. Smoker	2005
Tomorrow	David Budbill	2005
Three Seasons	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2007
Patsy Sees a Ghost	Lola Haskins	2004
Foreign Wife Elegy	Yuko Taniguchi	2004
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
The Blue Stairs	Barbara Guest	2003
Lupine Ridge	Peggy Simson Curry	1955
And You Thought You Were the Only One	Mark Bibbins	2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
The Wine-Drinkers	Tennessee Williams	2002

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