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
Let Me Disappear	Ray Gonzalez	2009
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Reminiscence	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
Jugglers	Francisco Aragón	2000
December Moon	Brenda Hillman	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
The City of God	David Baker	2001
History of Hurricanes	Teresa Cader	2009
A Fear of Old Age	Jack Anderson	2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
In Aporia	Akilah Oliver	2009
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Derrick Poem (The Lost World)	Terrance Hayes	1999
Fifty-Three	Eileen Myles	2007
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968

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