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
Rune of the Finland Woman	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand	C. D. Wright	2008
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?	Naomi Shihab Nye	2008
The Chance	Arthur Sze	1998
The Orange Flower (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
The Minotaur (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
Porn (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
Never Did Amount to Anything (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
It's Only a Paper Moon (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
I Remember in the Morning (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
Diet Mountain Dew (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
Depression (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
Complainers (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2014
The Dream of a Pillow (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
The Dream of a Little Occupied Japan Doll (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
In a Baby (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
Frank? (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
Figure (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
Erasing Host Manipulation (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014
Dopamine (audio only)	Kimiko Hahn	2014

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