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
Souvenir	Beth Ann Fennelly	2004
Driven by a Strange Desire	Mónica de la Torre	2009
I, Up they soar	Inger Christensen	1989
Introduction to the World	Matthea Harvey	2004
Blue Plate	Jesse Lee Kercheval	2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Vodka	Joel Brouwer	2003
Amo Amas Amat	Bernardine Evaristo	2001
Steps	Grace Schulman	2002
Nothing to Save	D. H. Lawrence	1964
The First Winter Snow	Richard Brautigan	1989
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001
Hardware Sparrows	R. T. Smith	2001
In April	James Hearst	2001
Apart (Les Separes)	Louis Simpson	1997
Late Night Ode	J. D. McClatchy	1991
I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage	Jen Karetnick	2024

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