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
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
Against Elegies	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Cleis (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	1992
Wild Gratitude	Edward Hirsch	1986
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003
Lay Back the Darkness	Edward Hirsch	2003
Winter Distances (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
Letter to GC	Dana Levin	2008
Bardo	Dana Levin	2008
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
Zozo-ji	Dana Levin	2008
Scrape and Bell (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
The Descent (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
Brian, Age 7 (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Letter to God (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Paul’s Tattoo (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Signal (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006

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