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 gate	Tadeusz Różewicz	2010
Marble Hill	Kazim Ali	2010
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
that they were at the beach [excerpt]	Leslie Scalapino	1985
A Sequence	Leslie Scalapino	1985
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Craftsman of Wine Bowls	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Mint	Elaine Terranova	2006
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
Xicano	J. Michael Martinez	2010
Last Words to Miriam	D. H. Lawrence	1921
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008

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