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
A Light Says Why	Karen Volkman	2002
Steps	Grace Schulman	2002
Gods	Michael Redhill	2001
The Black Bass	David Dodd Lee	2002
psalm	Alicia Ostriker	2001
Private Eye Lettuce	Richard Brautigan	1989
Leda, After the Swan	Carl Phillips	1992
Anne Rutledge	Edgar Lee Masters	1915
A Hermit Thrush	Amy Clampitt	1997
The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph	Larry Levis	1991
Those Graves in Rome	Larry Levis	1985
Done With	Ann Stanford	2000
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001
Travelling Against	Karen Houle	2000
Hardware Sparrows	R. T. Smith	2001
The Valve	David R. Slavitt	2001
Mary's Duties	Lola Haskins	2001
In April	James Hearst	2001
Sonnet for Salvadore	Gary Miranda	2001
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy	Donald Justice	1991

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