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
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Fred Astaire (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
March of the Penguins (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Don’t Kill Yourself (audio only)	Paul Hoover	2008
Driver’s Song (audio only)	Paul Hoover	2008
Edge and Fold, sections 15–49 (audio only)	Paul Hoover	2008
Poems We Can Understand (audio only)	Paul Hoover	2008
A Pot of Tea	Richard Kenney	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Primogeniture	Julie Agoos	2008
Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]	Karen Volkman	2008
Theme For Intermediate Chinese (audio only)	Afaa Michael Weaver	2008
Poem for Andrew Marvell (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Advice From the Geese (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Two ramages for old masters [Silent in the moonlight] (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
The Greek Ships (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
A Defense of Poetry (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Explicit Version Number Required (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Laurel's Eyes (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001

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