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
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
that they were at the beach [excerpt]	Leslie Scalapino	1985
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Portrait d'une Femme	Ezra Pound	1912
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
Joan (audio only)	Eileen Myles	2009
Little Ending	Charles Wright	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
Noel	Anne Porter	2006
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Secret History	Charles Simic	2008
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008

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