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
it: a user's guide	Evie Shockley	2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Souvenir from Anywhere (audio only)	Harryette Mullen	2001
And the Trains Go On (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
On. On. Stop. Stop.	Saskia Hamilton	2013
26	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2013
At North Farm (audio only)	John Ashbery	1987
Some Trees (audio only)	John Ashbery	1987
The Plural of Jack-in-the-Box (audio only)	John Ashbery	1978
The Earthquake She Slept Through	Mary Jo Bang	2012
Chekhov's Gun	Matt Rasmussen	2012
Comet Hyakutake	Arthur Sze	2012
Lying While Birding	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
It Turns Out (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2011
Animals and Art (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2011
Testing Gardening (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2011
Putting Things In Proportion (audio only)	Kay Ryan	2011
Counting (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2011
from Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2011

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