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
El Florida Room	Richard Blanco	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
Guillaume Apollinaire	Gertrude Stein	1913
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Alcove	John Ashbery	2010
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
A Windmill Makes A Statement	Cate Marvin	2007
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
At the Entering of the New Year	Thomas Hardy	1920
Third Charm from Masque of Queens	Ben Jonson	1609
I rose from marsh mud	Lorine Niedecker	2002

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