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
Safe Sex	Donald Hall	2006
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
String Theory Sutra	Brenda Hillman	2005
The Great Black Heron	Denise Levertov	1996
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992
Water Music	Robert Creeley	1983
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
The Clerk’s Tale	Spencer Reece	2004
Outside	Michael Ryan	2004
The Starlings	Jesper Svenbro	2003
Gospel	Philip Levine	2001
Grandfather Says	Ai	2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002
The Silence	Philip Schultz	2002
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	Etheridge Knight	1986
Poem for Pancho Gonzales	Leroy V. Quintana	2001
Radio, Radio	Ben Doller	2000
Father’s Love	Jewel Rodgers	2026

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