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
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises”	Robert Fitterman	2009
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Quatrains	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
Day Job and Night Job	Andrew Hudgins	2003
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
Like Brooms of Steel (1252)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Third Charm from Masque of Queens	Ben Jonson	1609
Credo	Matthew Rohrer	2001
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
December 2, 2002	Juliana Spahr	2005
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]	Homer	1961
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004

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