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
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
About Foam	Caroline Bergvall	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
RPT MC-60 00.27 8	Tan Lin	2010
Adjectives of Order	Alexandra Teague	2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Homosexuality	Henri Cole	2007
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Secret History	Charles Simic	2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Why Is the Color of Snow?	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Envoi	William Meredith	1997
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Back	Beckian Fritz Goldberg	2005
Dishwater	Ted Kooser	2004
Passing Through Albuquerque	John Balaban	1991

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