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
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
The Face Without Makeup (audio only)	Victor Hernández Cruz	2011
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude (audio only)	Rita Dove	2011
Syria Renga (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	2011
Flesh	Joan Larkin	2011
Work Without Hope	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1825
Heart Condition	Jericho Brown	2011
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
Lighthead's Guide to Addiction (audio only)	Terrance Hayes	2010
Image of the Engine (audio only)	George Oppen	1997
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only)	Elizabeth Bishop	1997

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