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
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Fabliau of Florida	Wallace Stevens	1923
The Witch Has Told You a Story	Ava Leavell Haymon	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
April	James Schuyler	2010
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Mother Night	James Weldon Johnson	1922
Secret History	Charles Simic	2008
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004

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