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
Tender Buttons [A Plate]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Space Station	Tom Sleigh	2005
The Nailhead (audio only)	David Ignatow	1964
Mastectomy	Wanda Coleman	1993
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell	Mark Jarman	1981
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992
Sticks	Thomas Sayers Ellis	2005
December 2, 2002	Juliana Spahr	2005
Los Angeles	Kamau Daáood	2005
Pigeons at Dawn	Charles Simic	2005
The Spirit of the Staircase	Lavinia Greenlaw	2003
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
Crossings	Ravi Shankar	2008
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays	Charles Reznikoff	1976
The Cross of Snow	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1879
The Truth About Northern Lights	Christine Hume	2004
Good Guests	Vern Rutsala	2004
R.S.V.P.	Jeanne Marie Beaumont	2004
Credo	Andrew Zawacki	2004

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