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
From “Burial Sites”	Toi Derricotte	2014
Red Brocade	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Loving Working	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Before I Was a Gazan	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Wartime Pantoum (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	2014
Ghazal: The Beloved (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	2014
from Diaspo/Renga (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	2014
The Road from Biloxi	Khaled Mattawa	2014
Taproot and Cradle	Khaled Mattawa	2014
Song Out Here	Juan Felipe Herrera	2014
Left-Handed Sugar	Jane Hirshfield	2011
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Entanglement	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Variations on a Psalm (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
God and Me (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Haiku (audio only)	Claudia Rankine	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Imaginary Waterfall	C. D. Wright	2014
Imaginary Rope	C. D. Wright	2014
Imaginary Morning Glory	C. D. Wright	2014

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