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
Chita Ground	Sandra Doller	2011
Challenger	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2011
Good Hair	Sherman Alexie	2011
September Elegies	Randall Mann	2010
A New Law	Greg Delanty	2010
A Language	Susan Stewart	2016
Old Photographs	Gabeba Baderoon	2010
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering	Jon Davis	2010
RR Lyrae: Matter	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2009
please advise stop [I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
please advise stop [my father’s dying makes stairs of every line of text seeming neither to go up or down stop]	Rusty Morrison	2008
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
Footprint on Your Heart	Gary Lenhart	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
Poppies	Henri Cole	2007
Craftsman of Wine Bowls	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Lion and Gin	Dennis Hinrichsen	2009
The Wild Iris (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
The Bell Zygmunt	Jane Hirshfield	2006

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