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 Way One Animal Trusts Another	Carl Phillips	2016
I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule	Chen Chen	2016
Whether by Drowning or by Stars	Mark Bibbins	2016
Alphabet Street	Randall Mann	2016
[the incompressible shuffles into place]	kari edwards	2016
Strawberrying	May Swenson	2016
from obedience [maybe one day, during a point in time]	kari edwards	2016
from obedience [the clock is on time]	kari edwards	2016
A Woman Is Talking to Death	Judy Grahn	2016
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem III]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Fiddleheads	Maureen Seaton	2016
Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]	Adrienne Rich	2016
On Marriage	Marilyn Hacker	2016
Charlie Howard’s Descent	Mark Doty	2016
Nocturne: Beheaded	Saeed Jones	2016
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d	Walt Whitman	1981
My Lover Is a Woman	Pat Parker	2016
Oshi	James L. White	2016
Dear Melissa: [a curve billed thrasher]	TC Tolbert	2016

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