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 Maenads	Ursula K. Le Guin	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Year of the Amateur	Cathy Park Hong	2011
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [one narcissus]	Tada Chimako	2010
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
Get Used To It	Margaret Young	2011
To George Sand: A Recognition	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
SPAM's carbon footprint	Craig Santos Perez	2010
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
The Dandelion	Vachel Lindsay	1916
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Voices	Sharon Olds	2010
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Against Elegies	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Bats	Paisley Rekdal	2007
An Unemployed Machinist	John Giorno	1970

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