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
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Sea Girls	A. E. Stallings	2010
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
The Broken Sandal	Denise Levertov	1970
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008
Prefix: Finding the measure	Robert Kelly	1995

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