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
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only)	Derek Walcott	1964
Magpiety (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1958
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1994
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only)	Rita Dove	1988
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
Shooting the Dog (audio only)	June Jordan	1992
Street (audio only)	George Oppen	1964
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
Polar Explorer (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1996
Witchgrass (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
My Mother's Lips (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978

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