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
Complaint of Achilles' Heel	Charles Jensen	2013
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919
El Florida Room	Richard Blanco	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Ghost Story	Matthew Dickman	2011
Body and Soul (audio only)	Charles Wright	2011
Exact	Rae Armantrout	2011
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	2011
from Dies: A Sentence	Vanessa Place	2005
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas	Juan Felipe Herrera	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
History of Hurricanes	Teresa Cader	2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
A Windmill Makes A Statement	Cate Marvin	2007

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