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
Remnants	Jim Handlin	2016
Ceremonial	Eduardo C. Corral	2015
On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm	William Wordsworth	1820
SONNET (silenced)	Olena Kalytiak Davis	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Mag	Carl Sandburg	1916
Beasts	Carmen Giménez	2013
Spent	Mark Doty	2013
Autumn Poem 2012	Hoa Nguyen	2013
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Quatrains	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
Day Job and Night Job	Andrew Hudgins	2003

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