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
How to Eat Alone (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
Daybreak (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Mark (audio only)	Louise Bogan	1968
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only)	Derek Walcott	1964
Aureng-Zebe, Prologue	John Dryden	1675
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1994
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
Magpiety (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1958
Shooting the Dog (audio only)	June Jordan	1992
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only)	Rita Dove	1988
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996

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