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 Flash Reverses Time (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2008
R&B (audio only)	A. Van Jordan	2007
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
Libido	Rupert Brooke	1916
To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger	William Cartwright	1651
Falsehood	William Cartwright	1651
Yourself the Sun	Arthur Gorges	1625
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity	Mary Jo Bang	2004
Catastrophe Theory III	Mary Jo Bang	2004
Catastrophe Theory II	Mary Jo Bang	2004
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	Andrew Marvell	1681
Rialto	Ron Padgett	2007
Vigo Martin	Victor Hernández Cruz	2006
Voiced Stops (audio only)	Forrest Gander	2001
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
The Descent of Alette [“A car” “awash with blood”] (audio only)	Alice Notley	2007
Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) (audio only)	Alice Notley	2007
Death by Wind (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2007
The Lost Colony (audio only)	Susan Stewart	2007
The Hive (audio only)	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2007

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