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
I Am Not a Myth	Matthew Hittinger	2014
Prayer for a Birthday	Mark Wunderlich	2013
My Childhood	Matthew Zapruder	2013
Dove, Interrupted	Lucie Brock-Broido	2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Muffin of Sunsets	Elaine Equi	2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
“I’m afraid of death”	Kathleen Ossip	2013
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us	Shane McCrae	2011
Earth Took of Earth	Anonymous	1000
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008

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