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
About a Field (audio only)	Idra Novey	2010
Middlemarch, 2009 (audio only)	Lisa Sewell	2010
Letters to a Young Poet, 1987 (audio only)	Lisa Sewell	2010
Electron Face	Matt Hart	2012
Her Name Was Name	Matt Hart	2012
Ever Read a Book Called Awe (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2010
Tornado (audio only)	Dorothea Lasky	2010
Miss Peach the Novel (audio only)	Catie Rosemurgy	2010
Penelope Considers a New Do (audio only)	Jehanne Dubrow	2010
Stateside (audio only)	Jehanne Dubrow	2010
Shakur (audio only)	Terrance Hayes	2010
Langston Blue	Jericho Brown	2010
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Fish (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
Her Body [The Signature] (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
How to Eat Alone (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
Daybreak (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978

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