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
Love in Boots (audio only)	John Ashbery	1994
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
Gold River	Catie Rosemurgy	2010
Oklahoma City: The Aftermath	Ira Sadoff	1995
Once I Could Say	Ira Sadoff	2012
[My Visitor from Nebraska] (audio only)	Harryette Mullen	2009
[Hiking up Topanga Canyon] (audio only)	Harryette Mullen	2009
In Despair (audio only)	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Door in the Mountain (audio only)	Jean Valentine	2009
[Toward the empty earth] (audio only)	Osip Mandelstam	2009
Living by the Red River (audio only)	James Wright	1977
Song for the Clatter-Bones	F. R. Higgins	1935
Roanoke and Wampumpeag	Susan Wheeler	2005
The Green Stamp Book	Susan Wheeler	2005
Tent (audio only)	Ann Lauterbach	2009
Untitled [So what is it then] (audio only)	Elizabeth Arnold	2009

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