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
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
Danny Boy	Frederick Edward Weatherly	1910
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
Along with Youth	Ernest Hemingway	1923
My/My/My	Charles Bernstein	1975
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
My Shoes	Charles Simic	1971
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
Curse	Pablo Neruda	1973
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles]	Christopher Logue	1988
December 2, 2002	Juliana Spahr	2005
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays	Charles Reznikoff	1976
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004
The Ghost Has No Home	Jeff Clark	1997
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey	Hayden Carruth	1996

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