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
Elegy for a Dead Labrador	Lars Gustafsson	2016
Ghazal	Larry Levis	2016
Call of the Night	Djuna Barnes	2016
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
The Future Is Here	Bianca Stone	2014
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
Vernal Equinox	Amy Lowell	1915
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	Delmore Schwartz	1959
Blue Dementia	Yusef Komunyakaa	2011
Talk	Kwame Dawes	2010
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Dangerous for Girls	Connie Voisine	2008
Curse	Pablo Neruda	1973
Epithalamium	Matthew Rohrer	2001
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses	Alberto Ríos	1990

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