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
Fuel	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
English as a Second Language	April Bernard	2002
The Ripple Effect	Jamey Dunham	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
Noel	Anne Porter	2006
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
Dangerous for Girls	Connie Voisine	2008
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity	Mary Jo Bang	2004
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
Father’s Day	James Tate	2008
Nightsong	Philip Booth	1999
Now	Liam Rector	2006
Units	Albert Goldbarth	2007
Heat	Denis Johnson	1994

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