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
Life is Beautiful (audio only)	Dorianne Laux	2009
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Cleis (audio only)	Marilyn Hacker	1992
Scrape and Bell (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
Winter Distances (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
Letter to GC	Dana Levin	2008
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
Zozo-ji	Dana Levin	2008
The Descent (audio only)	Fanny Howe	2009
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
Brian, Age 7 (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Letter to God (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Paul’s Tattoo (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
Signal (audio only)	Mark Doty	2006
basin of hills... (audio only)	Rusty Morrison	2008
wind is ... (audio only)	Rusty Morrison	2008
only gray rocks with drifting mist ... (audio only)	Rusty Morrison	2008
Folly	Cecily Parks	2008
I Lost My Horse	Cecily Parks	2008

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