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
In the Gold Room	Oscar Wilde	2018
rite	Anne Waldman	2018
But My Chains	Kyle Dargan	2018
First Wedding Dance	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote	Diane Seuss	2018
Service Station	Danusha Laméris	2018
Modern Love: XXIV	George Meredith	1909
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Near Miss	Fanny Howe	2017
Twentieth Century	Maggie Smith	2017
A Visit to the Asylum	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
The Calm	John Donne	2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite*	Stephanie Gray	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Call of the Night	Djuna Barnes	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
More Stones	Andrea Cohen	2015
Waiting for Rain	Ellen Bass	2013
The Boston Evening Transcript	T. S. Eliot	1920
Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner	Paisley Rekdal	2013

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