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
Death by Wind (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2007
The Lost Colony (audio only)	Susan Stewart	2007
The Hive (audio only)	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2007
The Old Man at the Wheel (audio only)	Frank Bidart	2007
Reunion 2005 (audio only)	Rita Dove	2007
First Things at the Last Minute (audio only)	Robert Hass	2007
The Future (audio only)	Lyn Hejinian	2007
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
The Believed-In (audio only)	James McMichael	2007
Why Is the Color of Snow?	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
On A Pair of Garters	Sir John Davies	1876
The Descent of Alette [“The water” “of the river”]	Alice Notley	1992
The Descent of Alette ["Presently"]	Alice Notley	1992
The Descent of Alette [“I stood waiting”]	Alice Notley	1992
Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets	Hayden Carruth	2006
New Shoes	Honor Moore	2005
Red Shoes	Honor Moore	2005
Now	Liam Rector	2006
Disgust	Liam Rector	2006

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