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
On 52nd Street	Philip Levine	2003
Grandfather Says	Ai	2003
79	Joachim du Bellay	2003
Butterfly Catcher	Tina Cane	1994
Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins	Cathy Park Hong	2002
Sunrise, Grand Canyon	John Barton	2001
The Fire Stays in Red	Ronny Someck	2002
A Quick One Before I Go	David Lehman	2002
Readings in French	Larry Levis	2000
There are Days	John Montague	2001
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001
Letter	Victor Hugo	2000
The Vulnerability of Order	Martine Bellen	2000
San Francisco Night Windows	Robert Penn Warren	2001
Altars of Light	Pierre Joris	2001
In April	James Hearst	2001
The Art of Translation (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
My Father's Love Letters (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Independence	Reetika Vazirani	2000
Fishing in Winter	Ralph Burns	1983

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