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
It Was Going on Five in the Morning	André Breton	2003
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Distance	John Boyle O'Reilly	1892
way [excerpts]	Leslie Scalapino	1988
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
Tender Buttons [Chicken]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Red Slippers	Amy Lowell	1916
Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past	Laura Jensen	1977
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004

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