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
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude (audio only)	Rita Dove	2011
Syria Renga (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	2011
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [To achieve reality]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
Thinking, It's Ok to Discuss	Michelle Taransky	2011
From “Also Birds”	Dawn Lundy Martin	2011
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
On the Sparrow: No Blame	Ed Roberson	2010
Nolan,	Ed Roberson	2010
Your Brain Is Yours	Natalie Lyalin	2011
Detail of the Woods	Richard Siken	2011
This Deepening Takes Place Again	Emily Kendal Frey	2011
First Light Edging Cirrus	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Postcard from Rockport	April Lindner	2011
Rondo	Janet Holmes	2011
Things Between Themselves	Heidi Lynn Staples	2011
By Night with Torch and Spear	Timothy Donnelly	2011
A Young Poet	Jane Miller	2011
Water	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921

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