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
jasper texas 1998	Lucille Clifton	1991
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
Heirloom	Nikky Finney	2011
Guillaume Apollinaire	Gertrude Stein	1913
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
Hope Wanted Alive	Terese Svoboda	2010
Vocation	Sandra Beasley	2010
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
Gravity and Center	Henri Cole	2007
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969

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