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 Ballad of Cathay Williams William Cathay	Shane McCrae	2012
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt]	Pindar	1824
Two Sewing	Hazel Hall	1921
It Was Going on Five in the Morning	André Breton	2003
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
A Memory Of the Players In a Mirror at Midnight	James Joyce	1917
Ghost Story	Matthew Dickman	2011
Again a Solstice	Jennifer Chang	2010
A Poem	Robert Creeley	2006
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas	Juan Felipe Herrera	2010
Ants	Ravi Shankar	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Liner Notes to an Imaginary Playlist (audio only)	Terrance Hayes	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Alcove	John Ashbery	2010

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