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
Blue Dementia	Yusef Komunyakaa	2011
We Heard Health Care (audio only)	Claudia Rankine	2011
Lying (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
Little Exercise (audio only)	Elizabeth Bishop	1993
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	2004
The Reader (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
A Wedding Toast (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
Ways Poets Go Crazy (audio only)	C. K. Williams	2010
A Language	Susan Stewart	2016
Improvisation on Yiddish (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	2010
Surrounded as we are, unlit, unshadowed (audio only)	Carl Phillips	2010
Alone and Not Alone (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2010
Alive	Naomi Shihab Nye	2010
Before	Khaled Mattawa	2010
Oatmeal (audio only)	Galway Kinnell	2010
The Combo	Joan Larkin	2010
The Death of Ignatz (audio only)	Monica Youn	2010
Ordinary Landscape (audio only)	Jonathan Weinert	2010
Dramatic Monologue Against the Self (audio Only)	Ken Chen	2010
Ignatz, Pop Quiz (audio only)	Monica Youn	2010

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