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
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Hope Wanted Alive	Terese Svoboda	2010
Vocation	Sandra Beasley	2010
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Gravity and Center	Henri Cole	2007
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Unfolded Out of the Folds	Walt Whitman	1891
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773

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