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
For love,	Jean Valentine	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Entanglement	Jane Hirshfield	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Names	Fady Joudah	2014
Congregation	Parneshia Jones	2014
Our Many Never Endings	Courtney Queeney	2014
Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday	Craig Morgan Teicher	2014
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III	Mary Robinson	1796
from Manatee/Humanity [1]	Anne Waldman	2009
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
from Blue Dark	Deborah Landau	2011
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
We Manage Most When We Manage Small	Linda Gregg	2008
Adjectives of Order	Alexandra Teague	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Testament	Carl Sandburg	1918
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003

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