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
The Public Garden (audio only)	Robert Lowell	1963
The Girl I Call Alma (audio only)	Linda Gregg	2002
The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974	Quincy Troupe	2002
Death’s Door (audio only)	Thom Gunn	1988
Demolition Derby	Mónica de la Torre	2002
Restless Leg Syndrome (audio only)	James Tate	1996
Wild Yeasts	Annie Finch	2003
Hackett Avenue	John Koethe	2003
The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh	Carol Frost	2003
The Prisoner of Zenda	Richard Wilbur	1976
Weathering Out (audio only)	Rita Dove	1988
A Perfume	John Koethe	2002
A Light Says Why	Karen Volkman	2002
Narrow Flame	Linda Gregerson	2002
A Season (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
To the Dead (audio only)	Frank Bidart	1992
The Covenant (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
Lamp, Terracotta Base, U.S., ca. 1925 (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Symposium (audio only)	Paul Muldoon	1996
The Year of the Kiln Portraits (audio only)	Les Murray	1996

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