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
Haunted Sonnet	Hoa Nguyen	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Imagery	Archibald MacLeish	2015
Survivor Guilt	Ron Padgett	2014
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Poetry	Amy Lowell	1919
If the ocean had a mouth	Marie-Elizabeth Mali	2014
Waiting for Rain	Ellen Bass	2013
Epistle: Leaving	Kerrin McCadden	2013
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III	Mary Robinson	1796
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
Instead of Losing	John Ashbery	2011
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
The Nurse	Michael Blumenthal	2011
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
Before the Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2010
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Tender Buttons [Apple]	Gertrude Stein	1914

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