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 Dance	Humberto Ak’abal	2011
Man in Stream	Rosanna Warren	2011
My love is as a fever, longing still	Christopher Bursk	2011
Complaint	William Logan	2011
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Summer Rice	Linda Susan Jackson	2010
Dead Brother Super Hero	Michael Dickman	2010
From the Lives of My Friends	Michael Dickman	2010
Cerrada Medellin Blues (First Solo) [1st Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1995
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering	Jon Davis	2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Fabliau of Florida	Wallace Stevens	1923
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
Celestial	Tina Chang	2010
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Soul-Sight	Archibald MacLeish	1917
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Distance	John Boyle O'Reilly	1892

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