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 Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law	Elizabeth Alexander	2018
The Book of Lamenting	Lory Bedikian	2018
Lullaby (with Exit Sign)	Hadara Bar-Nadav	2018
The House of Hospitalities	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Chil’ren Might Know	Dominique Christina	2018
The House of Ghosts	Margaret Widdemer	2018
from “Dissolve” [A field that shivered with a thousand cranes]	Sherwin Bitsui	2018
The Ghost’s Petition	Christina Rossetti	2018
The Poor Ghost	Christina Rossetti	2018
A Chilly Night	Christina Rossetti	2018
The Complaint of Lisa	Algernon Charles Swinburne	2018
Adrift	Bao Phi	2018
Fieldworkers of the Sublime	Nomi Stone	2018
My Father as Cartographer	Natasha Trethewey	2018
Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem	Yang Lian	2018
Prayer with Miscarriage / Grant Us the Ruined Grounds	Geffrey Davis	2018
Starlings	Maggie Smith	2018
Guadalajara Cemetery	Ai	2018
A Short Tablature of Loss	Rodney Gomez	2018
Loss	Rodney Gomez	2018

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