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
Witchgrass (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
Street (audio only)	George Oppen	1964
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
Polar Explorer (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1996
Astraea Redux	John Dryden	1660
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music	John Dryden	1697
The Study of Happiness (audio only)	Kenneth Koch	1969
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
Love in Boots (audio only)	John Ashbery	1994
My Mother's Lips (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Mark (audio only)	Louise Bogan	1968
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978

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