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
Gradeschool’s Large Windows	Thomas Lux	2012
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Water	Edwin Torres	2010
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Homosexuality	Henri Cole	2007
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
A Windmill Makes A Statement	Cate Marvin	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
Tender Buttons [A Box]	Gertrude Stein	1914

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