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
Fish (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978
The Study of Happiness (audio only)	Kenneth Koch	1969
The Mark (audio only)	Louise Bogan	1968
Love in Boots (audio only)	John Ashbery	1994
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only)	Derek Walcott	1964
Magpiety (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1958
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1994
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only)	Rita Dove	1988
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966

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