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
Waiting for Rain	Ellen Bass	2013
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
Tang	Bruce Cohen	2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.]	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2013
Detail of the Hayfield	Richard Siken	2013
A Story About Dying	Kevin Prufer	2011
Traveling Light	Linda Pastan	2011
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Cousin Nancy	T. S. Eliot	1920
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
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896

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