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
Dear Empire [these are your temples]	Oliver de la Paz	2012
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Rocket Fantastic [It’s ridiculous what fame]	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2011
Poem [on getting a card]	William Carlos Williams	1953
Summer Images	John Clare	1835
Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance	John Cage	1957
Exact	Rae Armantrout	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
From “Mesongs”	Kamau Brathwaite	2010
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915
Her Name Was Name	Matt Hart	2012
Cape Coast Castle	Yusef Komunyakaa	2010
Dead Brother Super Hero	Michael Dickman	2010
Orlando Blues [1st Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1995
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962

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