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
Summer Sun	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
MacDowell	Rachel Wetzsteon	2010
The Witch Has Told You a Story	Ava Leavell Haymon	2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794)	Emily Dickinson	1890
this kind of fire	Charles Bukowski	2009
Stet Stet Stet	Ange Mlinko	2010
Tell Me	Sara London	2010
All the Whiskey in Heaven	Charles Bernstein	2010
Donkey Carts and Desolation	Matthew Shenoda	2009
Marble Hill	Kazim Ali	2010
A Woman Named Thucydides	Sherod Santos	2010
About Death and Other Things	Aleksandar Ristovic	2010
Dialect of a Skirt	Erica Miriam Fabri	2010
please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father’s arm stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [my father’s dying makes stairs of every line of text seeming neither to go up or down stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010

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