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
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1”	Anne Waldman	2016
1905	Marilyn Nelson	2015
Sonnet	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	1922
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
Sonnet	Bill Knott	1989
To My Best Friend's Big Sister	Ross Gay	2013
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll]	Brian Merriman	2006
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
My Friends	W. S. Merwin	1963
They’ll spend the summer	Joshua Beckman	2004
The Ghost Has No Home	Jeff Clark	1997

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