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
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
Images	Richard Aldington	1916
We Manage Most When We Manage Small	Linda Gregg	2008
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
RPT MC-60 00.27 8	Tan Lin	2010
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
R&B (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2007
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
The Fish	Linda Bierds	1994
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997

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