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
Deception Story	Solmaz Sharif	2017
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
For Telly the Fish	Toi Derricotte	2011
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Twenty Questions	Jim Moore	2012
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
Here and Now	Stephen Dunn	2011
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Mexico City Blues [182nd Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1959
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
The Passionate Freudian to His Love	Dorothy Parker	1996
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009

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