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 Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
Sonnet	Wallace Stevens	2016
Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes	William Wordsworth	2015
Cream City / Doodooshabo’enaande Oodena	Margaret Noodin	2015
The Rule of Opulence	Khadijah Queen	2015
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
He Made This Screen	Marianne Moore	2015
Weave in, My Hardy Life	Walt Whitman	2014
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit	Leigh Hunt	1836
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
Exact	Rae Armantrout	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Homosexuality	Henri Cole	2007
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891

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