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
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
Habit	Hazel Hall	1921
Stilling to North	Arthur Sze	2014
Appalachian Book of the Dead IV (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
Burial	Cathy Linh Che	2014
Tackle Football	Dan Chiasson	2013
Headaches	Marilyn Hacker	2013
Imaginary June	C. D. Wright	2013
Amour Honestus	Edward Hirsch	2013
After Suicide (audio only)	Matt Rasmussen	2013
improper(ty) behavior (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
Requiem (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	2013

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