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
Where is the Poet	Yone Noguchi	1921
What Will You Do?	Rainer Maria Rilke	1922
At a Days Inn in Barstow, California	Chloe Honum	2019
Inside the MRI Machine	Hala Alyan	2019
Ekphrastifilia	Matt Rasmussen	2019
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
The Sea and the Skylark	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Housesitting	William Brewer	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth	Fatimah Asghar	2019
Adjacent, Against, Upon	Rick Barot	2019
Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood	torrin a. greathouse	2019
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)	Dante Di Stefano	2019
Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror	Kelli Russell Agodon	2019
How to Lift Him	Ed Madden	2016
Sacrifice	Ed Madden	2011
Ark	Ed Madden	2016
Bridges and Crossroads	Kim Shuck	2015
Navigation	Jeanetta Calhoun Mish	2018
To Theodore	George Marion McClellan	1916

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