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
My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree	Vachel Lindsay	2013
The Purpose of Ritual	Melissa Broder	2013
The Pool	H.D.	1915
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt]	Pindar	1824
Summer Nights and Days	Rachel Hadas	2012
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
Choke	Eileen Myles	2012
If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology	Heather Christle	2012
Our Bodies Break Light	Traci Brimhall	2012
Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance	John Cage	1957
At the Piano	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
When I Am in the Kitchen	Jeanne Marie Beaumont	2010
Alive	Naomi Shihab Nye	2010
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
9773 Comanche Ave.	David Trinidad	2010
Cerrada Medellin Blues (First Solo) [1st Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1995
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995

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