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
Phases	Michael Redhill	1993
Fisherman	Kurt Brown	2002
Leda, After the Swan	Carl Phillips	1992
Days of Rome	Gerard Malanga	2001
New York Notes	Harvey Shapiro	2001
A Path Between Houses	Greg Rappleye	2000
Jasmine	Yusef Komunyakaa	2001
Of Politics, & Art	Norman Dubie	2000
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000
Bantams in Pine-Woods	Wallace Stevens	1954
Identity of Images	Robert Desnos	1997
Mostly Mick Jagger	Catie Rosemurgy	2001
The Wash	Sarah Getty	1996
The Ferryer (audio only)	Sharon Olds	1992
The Lover	Reetika Vazirani	1999
Fishing in Winter	Ralph Burns	1983
To me that man seems like a god in heaven (51)	Gaius Valerius Catullus	1989
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101)	Gaius Valerius Catullus	1896
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line	Jack Agüeros	1991

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