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
Vespertina Cognitio	Natasha Trethewey	2010
The Children’s Hour	Li-Young Lee	2010
Chester	John Koethe	2009
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
Sojourn in the Whale	Marianne Moore	1917
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering	Jon Davis	2010
In Darkness	Jon Davis	2010
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Lake on the Hill	James Longenbach	2010
Fabliau of Florida	Wallace Stevens	1923
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
A Woman Named Thucydides	Sherod Santos	2010
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Let Us Go Then	Ciaran Carson	2010
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
Abraham Davenport [excerpt]	John Greenleaf Whittier	1866
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010

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