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
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1”	Anne Waldman	2016
To Hope	Charlotte Smith	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
The Answer	Sara Teasdale	1915
Sonnet	Bill Knott	1989
To My Best Friend's Big Sister	Ross Gay	2013
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning]	Harryette Mullen	2012
Mars Poetica	Wyn Cooper	2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
“Ferrum” [Excerpt]	M. NourbeSe Philip	2008
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006
Credo	Matthew Rohrer	2001
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977
Gooseberry Season	Simon Armitage	2005
The Ghost Has No Home	Jeff Clark	1997
After the Grand Perhaps	Lucie Brock-Broido	1988

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