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
After Dinner	Lisa Pegram	2015
The Dream	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Hotel Couplets	Lisa Robertson	2013
Mars Poetica	Wyn Cooper	2012
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
For the Fallen	Laurence Binyon	1914
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run	Matthea Harvey	2006
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll]	Brian Merriman	2006
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973

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