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
Lying While Birding	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
It Turns Out (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2011
Animals and Art (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2011
Testing Gardening (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2011
Putting Things In Proportion (audio only)	Kay Ryan	2011
Counting (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2011
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

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