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
R&B (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2007
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
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
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Words from the Front	Ron Padgett	2007
Rialto	Ron Padgett	2007
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
Voiced Stops (audio only)	Forrest Gander	2001
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
The Descent of Alette [“A car” “awash with blood”] (audio only)	Alice Notley	2007
Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) (audio only)	Alice Notley	2007
Father’s Day	James Tate	2008
The Hive (audio only)	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2007
The Old Man at the Wheel (audio only)	Frank Bidart	2007
Reunion 2005 (audio only)	Rita Dove	2007
First Things at the Last Minute (audio only)	Robert Hass	2007
The Future (audio only)	Lyn Hejinian	2007

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