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
Susan's Photograph (audio only)	Jean Valentine	2009
Los Dos Rancheros (audio only)	Charlie Smith	2009
Real Time (audio only)	Charlie Smith	2009
[Time (Outside the Quincunx)] (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009
Triggerfish (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009
Parrotfish (audio only)	Jeffrey Yang	2009
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock	Wallace Stevens	1915
Tender Buttons [Apple]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Xicano	J. Michael Martinez	2010
White	J. Michael Martinez	2010
Greeter of Souls	Deborah Digges	2004
Trapeze (audio only)	Deborah Digges	2004
Fence of Sticks (audio only)	Deborah Digges	2004
In Knowledge of Young Boys	Toi Derricotte	2009
Song For the Spirit of Natalie Going	Susan Wheeler	2009
Assault	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Life is Beautiful (audio only)	Dorianne Laux	2009
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003

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