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
Poem [on getting a card]	William Carlos Williams	1953
Summer Images	John Clare	1835
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
Her Name Was Name	Matt Hart	2012
Dead Brother Super Hero	Michael Dickman	2010
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering	Jon Davis	2010
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
way [excerpts]	Leslie Scalapino	1988
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
Red Slippers	Amy Lowell	1916
Looking	Robert Kelly	1995
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	Walt Whitman	1891
Flood	Eliza Griswold	2007
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
Friday’s Child (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964

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