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
The Reader (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
A Wedding Toast (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
Lying (audio only)	Richard Wilbur	2003
Ways Poets Go Crazy (audio only)	C. K. Williams	2010
A Language	Susan Stewart	2016
Improvisation on Yiddish (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	2010
Surrounded as we are, unlit, unshadowed (audio only)	Carl Phillips	2010
Alone and Not Alone (audio only)	Ron Padgett	2010
Alive	Naomi Shihab Nye	2010
Before	Khaled Mattawa	2010
Oatmeal (audio only)	Galway Kinnell	2010
The Combo	Joan Larkin	2010
My Father and My Mother Decide My Future, and How Could We Forget Wang Wei? (audio Only)	Ken Chen	2010
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

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