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
From “Fairies”	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2013
In Summer Time	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
It Was Going on Five in the Morning	André Breton	2003
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises”	Robert Fitterman	2009
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Merciles Beaute	Geoffrey Chaucer	1375
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Triad	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)	William Shakespeare	1609
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses	Alberto Ríos	1990
To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam	César Vallejo	1993
One Flower	Jack Kerouac	2003
Once in the 40’s	William Stafford	1982

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