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
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
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	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
Karawane	Hugo Ball	1916
The Soul selects her own Society (303)	Emily Dickinson	1890
[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] (audio only)	Sappho	1995
Song of Myself, 3	Walt Whitman	1891
The Pulley	George Herbert	1633
Home to Roost	Kay Ryan	2005
Mercury Rising (A Visualization)	Jena Osman	2008
To the Reader	Jena Osman	2008
from Pieces of an Hour (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2008
Stereo	Anne Waldman	2008
Four Noble Truths (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2008
Peon, May I Speak Thus? (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2008

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