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
The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
Lost in Los (Angeles)	Marisela Norte	2015
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
Song Book	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Diana of the Hunt	Forceythe Willson	1867
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
When I Buy Pictures	Marianne Moore	1921
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
The New Year	Emma Lazarus	1882
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us	Shane McCrae	2011
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Tender Buttons [Chicken]	Gertrude Stein	1914
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003

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