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
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering	Jon Davis	2010
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	Walt Whitman	1891
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Letter from a Haunted Room	Lisa Sewell	2006
To Sylvia, To Wed	Robert Herrick	1648
St. Peter and the Angel	Denise Levertov	1984
Kore	Robert Creeley	1991

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