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
Patriot Preacher: Rev. Stephen Johnson, Minister, First Congregational Church, Lime, Connecticut, 1766 (audio only)	Marilyn Nelson	2016
The Meeting House: Lyme, Connecticut, 1666 (audio only)	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Font	Linda Gregerson	2016
Revisiting Hekale	Khaled Mattawa	2016
Hey Phil	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
Poem by Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
I Sat in the Sun	Jane Hirshfield	2016
I Know You Think I've Forgotten	Jane Hirshfield	2015
My Life Was the Size of My Life	Jane Hirshfield	2015
The Woman, The Tiger	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Global Warming	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Zero Plus Anything Is a World	Jane Hirshfield	2015
One Week Later in the Strange	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Equinox	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there]	Claudia Rankine	2016
Dirge South	Anne Waldman	2016
The Border: A Double Sonnet	Alberto Ríos	2016
Obscurity and the Amateur (audio only)	C. D. Wright	2016
On Marriage	Marilyn Hacker	2016

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