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
Detour of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument	Craig Santos Perez	2016
National Politics in Yellowstone Park, July 29, 1914	David Romtvedt	2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite*	Stephanie Gray	2016
In Two Seconds	Mark Doty	2016
Blue	Sidney Wade	2016
To Spring	Roger Greenwald	2016
The August Preoccupations	Catherine Barnett	2016
Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng	Cathy Linh Che	2016
August Morning, Upper Broadway	Alicia Ostriker	2016
No Hands	Carol Muske-Dukes	2016
Daisy Cutter	Camille T. Dungy	2016
Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker’s Stroke	Philip Metres	2016
In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and	Marianne Moore	2016
What Is the Grass?	Mark Doty	2016
Heliotrope	Linda Gregerson	2016
The Exile	Michael Wasson	2015
Twelve-Hour Shifts	Jill McDonough	2015
Difference	Nate Klug	2015
Still Life with Invisible Canoe	Idra Novey	2015
Trans-	Rita Dove	2015

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