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
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go	John Donne	2020
City Lights 1961	Diane di Prima	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Another Poem for Mothers	Erin Belieu	2014
The Long Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2013
Waifs and Strays	Arthur Rimbaud	1912
Gather	Rose McLarney	2012
From “La Pelona as Birdwoman”	Rigoberto González	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Our Valley	Philip Levine	2009
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
Talk	Kwame Dawes	2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing]	Bhanu Kapil	2008
Liner Notes to an Imaginary Playlist (audio only)	Terrance Hayes	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969

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