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 Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew	Ross Gay	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
Antique	Arthur Rimbaud	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
Negotiations with a Volcano	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
way [excerpts]	Leslie Scalapino	1988
Fuel	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Farewell	John Clare	1920
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
Achill	Derek Mahon	1991

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