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
Saturday 9/15/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
Wednesday 9/12/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
Study	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Exit Interview	Carrie Shipers	2017
To My Mother	Lucretia Maria Davidson	1841
Aubade	Camille Rankine	2017
A Place in the Country	Toi Derricotte	2017
Anthropocene Blues	Anne Waldman	2017
After Ch’u Yuan	Ezra Pound	2017
Poem for a National Seashore	Brenda Hillman	2016
Fragment	Rupert Brooke	2016
Philip Larkin’s Koan	Paisley Rekdal	2016
White Sands	Arthur Sze	2016
Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park	Jericho Brown	2016
badlands: a song of flux, out of time	Lee Ann Roripaugh	2016
And the Old Man Speaks of Paradise: a Ghazal	Wang Ping	2016
A Visit to the Asylum	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite*	Stephanie Gray	2016
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there]	Claudia Rankine	2016
Trailing Clouds of Glory	Vijay Seshadri	2016

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