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
Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Human Form (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Tribute and Ash (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Elvis Be My Psychopomp (audio only)	David Kirby	2008
A Man Like You, But Older (audio only)	David Kirby	2008
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	Walt Whitman	1855
In Paris With You (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
The Heart (audio only)	Robert Creeley	2001
Jerusalem (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
Cutthroat Christ (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
The Flash Reverses Time (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2008
R&B (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2007
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
Migration (audio only)	Major Jackson	2008
Picket Monsters (audio only)	Major Jackson	2008
Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden]	Major Jackson	2006
Catastrophe Theory III	Mary Jo Bang	2004
Catastrophe Theory II	Mary Jo Bang	2004
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity	Mary Jo Bang	2004
Love Song	William Carlos Williams	2008

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