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
Emptying Town (audio only)	Nick Flynn	2007
Sonnet [The pearl of interval] (audio only)	Karen Volkman	2008
Turbulence (audio only)	Richard Kenney	2008
Fit Audience (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2008
Winter Field (audio only)	Joanna Klink	2008
Anamorphosis (audio only)	Cole Swensen	2008
Certain Principles Must Be Observed (audio only)	Cole Swensen	2008
Orangeries (audio only)	Cole Swensen	2008
Thank Gerard (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2008
Fixed (audio only)	Christopher Stackhouse	2008
The One-Strand River (audio only)	Richard Kenney	2008
This Bridge, Like Poetry, Is Vertigo (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2010
Or to Begin Again (audio only)	Ann Lauterbach	2008
Day (audio only)	Ann Lauterbach	2008
Just Before	Jorie Graham	2008
Nearing Dawn	Jorie Graham	2008
An American in Hollywood (audio only)	Frank Bidart	2008
Embodies	Jorie Graham	2008
If See No End In Is (audio only)	Frank Bidart	2008
America	Walt Whitman	1891

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