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
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
Polar Explorer (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1996
Witchgrass (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
My Mother's Lips (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
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
Me and the Otters	Dorothea Lasky	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
The Apple Trees at Olema	Robert Hass	2010
Gold River	Catie Rosemurgy	2010
sisters	Lucille Clifton	1989
my dream about being white	Lucille Clifton	1989
the lost women	Lucille Clifton	1989

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