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
Grandfather’s Breath	Ray McNiece	2004
Living Room	David Yezzi	2015
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
My Father's Love Letters (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
In the High Country	David St. John	2021
My Father’s Geography	Afaa Michael Weaver	1992
My Father Told Us Stories. . .	Eula Biss	2002
Driving Dad to The Dog Museum	Gailmarie Pahmeier	2014
What Make a Man	Geffrey Davis	2018
Portrait of My Father as a Pianist	Cynthia Dewi Oka	2017
Sorting	Twyla M. Hansen	2017
My Father’s Tie Rack	Joan Larkin	2016
After Striving	Corrie Lynn White	2023
To his Father	Robinson Jeffers	1935
His Morning Meditations	Jay Parini	2016
Daughter	Jon Pineda	2015
Toy Cloud	Nathan Hoks	2014
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	Beth Ann Fennelly	2009
My Father	Scott Hightower	2010

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