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 Decorative Airport Fern Is Not What It Pretends to Be	Jennifer L. Knox	2011
Lighthouse	Alfred Corn	2010
Trip Hop	Geoffrey Brock	2011
Road Warriors (audio only)	Charles Wright	2011
Iowa	Kate Northrop	2011
Untitled [The more I go, the harder it becomes to return]	Jennifer Denrow	2011
On the Platform	Tom Sleigh	2010
Dead Straight	Olive Senior	2010
Jamaican Idol	Terese Svoboda	2010
View from a Temporary Window	Joanie Mackowski	2010
The Vacant Lot at the End of the Street	Debora Greger	2010
The Rising of the Ashes [Before]	Tahar Ben Jelloun	2010
Incident on the Road to the Capital	Dara Barrois/Dixon	2010
Love Poem from South China, 1999	Rachel DeWoskin	2009
Soliloquy, Act 6 [excerpt]	Kenneth Goldsmith	2001
The Uses of Distortion	Caroline Crumpacker	2008
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Out-of-the-Body Travel	Stanley Plumly	1974
Slow Waltz Through Inflatable Landscape	Christian Hawkey	2005

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