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
[Doc, there was a hand] (audio only)	Cathy Linh Che	2014
The Dead Will Lead You (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
Small Prayer to the God of Epiphany (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
Self-Traction (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
The Reckoning of Relics (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
Mercy Does Not Mean Thank You (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
Fragments of Poems Returned to You (audio only)	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2014
Troubadour Song (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
The Sweetness (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Special Orders (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Self-Portrait (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
I Was Never Able to Pray (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Cotton Candy	Edward Hirsch	2010
The Chardin Exhibition (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Branch Library (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
Black Rhinoceros	Edward Hirsch	2014
A Partial History of My Stupidity (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
A New Theology (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
To D. B. (audio only)	Edward Hirsch	2014

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