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
Final Performance	Cynthia Cruz	2010
Translations	Michael Dickman	2010
Postpartum	Hiromi Itō	2009
For the Poem Paterson [1. Detail]	William Carlos Williams	1988
Disciplines [If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling]	Dawn Lundy Martin	2010
After Baby After Baby	Rachel Zucker	2010
Mother Ann Tells Lucy What Gave Her Joy	Arra Lynn Ross	2010
Jugglers	Francisco Aragón	2000
Seurat	Ira Sadoff	1975
My Mother's Funeral	Ira Sadoff	1998
The Player Queen	W. B. Yeats	1916
The Heart of the Woman	W. B. Yeats	1899
Exile	Alicia Ostriker	2009
Where Man Is in His Whole	Hannah Zeavin	2009
Woman at the Window	Theodore Deppe	2009
Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe	Arthur Sze	2009
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005
To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54	Teresa Carson	2008
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
The Sick Child	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887

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