To aid direct searches for poems, all of the currently available poems are listed below with the associated poet, poetic form, and initial publication year. Poems can also be filtered by these criteria using the sidebar on the right.
Poem Title | Poet | Poetic Form | Publication Year |
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Gay Chaps at the Bar | Gwendolyn Brooks | Sonnet | 1945 |
We Real Cool | Gwendolyn Brooks | Couplet | 1959 |
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed | Gwendolyn Brooks | Ballad | 1961 |
To the Diaspora | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | 1981 |
A Step Away From Them | Free verse | 1956 | |
The Day Lady Died | Frank O'Hara | Free verse | 1959 |
Why I Am Not a Painter | Frank O'Hara | Free verse | 1957 |
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island | Frank O'Hara | Free verse | 1958 |
Thinking of James Dean | Frank O'Hara | Free verse | 1955 |
"They Dream Only of America" | John Ashbery | Free verse | 1962 |
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape | John Ashbery | Sestina | |
Syringa | John Ashbery | Free verse | 1977 |
Daffy Duck in Hollywood | John Ashbery | Free verse | 1977 |
The Problem of Anxiety | John Ashbery | Free verse | 1995 |
Words to that Effect | John Ashbery | Free verse | 2012 |
Paradoxes and Oxymorons | John Ashbery | Free verse | 1981 |
Caesar | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1967 |
For the Anniversary of My Death | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1967 |
The Asians Dying | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1967 |
For A Coming Extinction | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1967 |
Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1967 |
The Horse | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1977 |
Sun And Rain | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1983 |
Berryman | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 1983 |
Worn Words | W. S. Merwin | Free verse | 2008 |
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | Adrienne Rich | Quatrain | 1951 |
Trying to Talk With a Man | Adrienne Rich | Free verse | 1971 |
Diving into the Wreck | Adrienne Rich | Free verse | 1972 |
Twenty-One Love Poems | Adrienne Rich | Free verse | |
Ketjak | Ron Silliman | Prose poem | 1978 |