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
Sonnet	Wallace Stevens	2016
Yellow Rain	Mai Der Vang	2016
There Is a Bird in My Mouth	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2015
Let Everything Happen to You	Natalie Eilbert	2015
For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C.	David Wojahn	2014
King Lear	Lisa Sewell	2014
A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918	Natalie Clifford Barney	1920
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
The Figure	Joseph Fasano	2013
Detail of the Hayfield	Richard Siken	2013
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
This Deepening Takes Place Again	Emily Kendal Frey	2011
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew	Ross Gay	2011
Instead of Losing	John Ashbery	2011
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008

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