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
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Sea Girls	A. E. Stallings	2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008
Prefix: Finding the measure	Robert Kelly	1995
A True Poem	Lloyd Schwartz	2000
Poem	Matthew Rohrer	2007
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
Angel of Duluth [excerpt]	Madelon Sprengnether	2006
Traveling	Malena Mörling	2006

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