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
Monument (audio only)	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Friday’s Child (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
First Things First (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1960
How We Did It (audio only)	Muriel Rukeyser	1976
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M. (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
Present Tense (audio only)	Harryette Mullen	2001
Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements (audio only)	Lucie Brock-Broido	2004
Thank You For Saying Thank You (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Death Is the Cool Night (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Albany	Ron Silliman	1983
Reminder	Michael Ryan	2004
Irritable Mystic	Nathaniel Mackey	1993
Song of the Andoumboulou: 21	Nathaniel Mackey	1998
Telling the Bees	Deborah Digges	2004
Sally’s Hair	John Koethe	2006
Posited	James McMichael	2006
Theories of Time and Space	Natasha Trethewey	2006
The Rwanda Poems [excerpt] (audio only)	Kamau Brathwaite	1994

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