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
Conspiracy to Commit Larceny: A Recipe	Jennifer Militello	2013
One Day	Joseph Millar	2013
They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century	Maureen N. McLane	2013
Teach me I am forgotten by the dead	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1831
House or Window Flies	John Clare	2013
The Rain of the Ice	Eric Baus	2013
Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	Marianne Moore	1915
Window Seat: Providence to New York City	Jacqueline Osherow	2012
At North Farm (audio only)	John Ashbery	1987
What I’m Looking For	Maureen N. McLane	2012
When I Buy Pictures	Marianne Moore	1921
Under the Willows [May is a pious fraud of the almanac]	James Russell Lowell	1890
Useless Landscape	D. A. Powell	2012
Here City	Rick Snyder	2012
Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life]	Bruce Smith	2012
Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog	Dara Barrois/Dixon	2011
From a Woman of a Distant Land	Tada Chimako	2010
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
Letter to Jerusalem	Elana Bell	2011
Thumping	William Corbett	2011

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