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
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
Me and the Otters	Dorothea Lasky	2010
True Love	Barry Gifford	2009
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old]	Rudyard Kipling	1901
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
XIII	César Vallejo	2007
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005
Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot	Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan	2008
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008
Jerusalem (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
The Lady of the Manor [Next died the Lady]	George Crabbe	1834
No Platonic Love	William Cartwright	1651
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Duality	Tina Chang	2007
At Night the States	Alice Notley	2006
Prefix: Finding the measure	Robert Kelly	1995

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