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
Text Message	Oni Buchanan	2008
Ars Poetica? (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1968
Discrete Series (audio only)	George Oppen	1964
every little meth	Abraham Smith	2007
we both split	Abraham Smith	2007
whim man mammon	Abraham Smith	2007
Sentimental Atom Smasher	Darcie Dennigan	2008
The Feeling of the World as a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical [The child affixes]	Darcie Dennigan	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	Jenny Boully	2008
Title It Shotgun Wound	Gregory Pardlo	2007
Copyright	Gregory Pardlo	2008
Atlantic City Sunday Morning	Gregory Pardlo	2007
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Land’s End (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
The Park (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
Tranter in America (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
Quindecagon (audio only)	Ron Silliman	2008
What [Friends ask us why] (audio only)	Ron Silliman	2008

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