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
An Octave Above Thunder	Carol Muske-Dukes	1997
Stirred Up By Rain	Chase Twichell	1998
The Women Who Clean Fish	Erica Funkhouser	1983
Identities	Daniel Hoffman	2002
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934	David Wagoner	1966
Michael's Wine	Sandra Alcosser	1998
To the Reader: Polaroids	Chase Twichell	1998
April Inventory	W. D. Snodgrass	1957
N	Maurya Simon	1990
Quid Pro Quo	Paul Mariani	1996
The Initiate	Charles Simic	1990
To the Reader: If You Asked Me	Chase Twichell	1998
Talking to Patrizia	Kenneth Koch	1994
The Fishermen at Guasti Park	Maurya Simon	1986
The Gods Who Come Among Us in the Guise of Strangers	Paul Mariani	1996
You, Andrew Marvell	Archibald MacLeish	1930
To the Reader: Twilight	Chase Twichell	1998
The Orange Bears	Kenneth Patchen	1957
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
The Father of the Predicaments	Heather McHugh	1999

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