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
Visiting Auschwitz (audio only)	Elana Bell	2011
On a Hilltop at the Nassar Farm (audio only)	Elana Bell	2011
Poetry Is (audio only)	Dominic Siracusa	2011
From “One With Others”	C. D. Wright	2011
from In Search of Wealth (audio only)	Anna Moschovakis	2011
Weekend Guests from Chicago, 1945	Toi Derricotte	2013
Blackbottom	Toi Derricotte	2013
Walking with Walt (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2013
Second Why (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2013
Prose Poem (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2013
Louisiana Perch (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2013
Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2013
One Way or Another	Naomi Shihab Nye	2013
Business	Naomi Shihab Nye	2013
Arabs in Finland	Naomi Shihab Nye	2013
To Jackson Pollock	Mark Doty	2013
On Abrigador Hill (audio only)	Marilyn Nelson	2013
Dinah's Lament (audio only)	Marilyn Nelson	2013
Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema	Juan Felipe Herrera	2013
My Proteins	Jane Hirshfield	2015

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