Poets and poems

We feature a variety of articles on contemporary and historical poets. We also have a wonderful collection of poems—from haiku, sonnets, and villanelles to sestinas, pantoums, Twitter poems and more.

Great for personal enjoyment, sharing, or using as teaching tools.

Poems & Themes

Adam & Eve Poems
Alien Poems
Americana Poems
Angel Poems
Animal Poems
Anniversary Poems
Attentiveness Poems
Ballad Poems
Barbie Poems
Bee Poems
Beer Poems
Bird Poems
Black Poets (various poems by)
Bottled & Canned Poems
Butterfly Poems
Cake Poems
Camel Poems
Cashmere Poems
Cat Poems
Catalog (form) Poems
Celebrity Poems
Cento Poems
Childhood Poems
Chocolate Poems
Christmas Poems
Circus and Carnival Poems
City and Country Poems
Coffee Poems
Color Poems
Courage Poems
Dog Poems
Dream Poems
Epic Poems
Fairy Tale Poems
Family Poems
Farm Poems
Fishing Poems
Food Poems
Fourth of July Poems
Friendship Poems
Funny Poems
Games Poems
Ghazal Poems
Golf Poems
Grief Poems
Haiku
Heart Poems
Herb Poems
Heroes and Villains Poems
Hope Poems
House and Home Poems
Humanity Poems
Humorous Poems
Independence Poems
Laundry Poems
Love Poems
Math, Science, and Technology Poems
Mirror Poems
Moon Poems
Nature Poems
New Year’s Poems
Night Poems
Pantoum
Pirate Poems
Plum Poems
Poems on Poetry
Question Poems
Red Poems
Rock Song Poems
Rose Poems
Rumi Poems
Sabbath Poems
School Poems
Sea Poems
Sestina
Shakespeare Poems
Shakespeare-Themed Poems
Ship, Sail, Boat Poems
Short Poems
Sonnets
Spring Poems
Star Trek Poems
Summer Poems
Surreal Poems
Swan Poems
Tattoo Poems
Tea Poems
Time Poems
Train Poems
Travel Poems
Twitter Poems
Vampire Poems
Villanelles
War Poems
Whittles and Wood Poems
Wine Poems
Wood Poems
Work Poems
Writing Poems (poems on writing)
Zombie Poems

Poets

Abushanab, Chad
Akhmatova, Anna
Allen, Rachael
Anderson, Scott Edward
Angelou, Maya
Barkat, L.L.
Beban, Richard
Berlin, Richard
Berry, Wendell
Bidart, Frank
Billone, Amy
Bishop, Elizabeth
Blake, Sarah
Blake, William
Blok, Alexander
Bowen, Ollie
Brosman, Catharine Savage
Brontë, Emily
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Cairns, Scott
Calpildeo, Vahni
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Clifton, Harry
Collins, Billy
Dancing Bear, J.P.
Dickinson, Emily
Davis, Todd
Dombrowski, Chris
Dumitru, Cyra
Egremont, Max
Eliot, T.S.
Estes, John
Felsen, Brian
Frost, Robert
Gailey, Jeannine Hall
Galvin, Brendan
Gander, Forrest
Gilbert, Jack
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Ginsberg, Allen
Gioia, Dana
Glaser, Michael
Gluck, Louise
Hajratwala, Minal
Harrity, Dave
Harsent, David
Heaney, Seamus
Howe, Sarah
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Ted
Incognito
Jarman, Mark
Jeffers, Robinson
Jones, Saeed
Kaminsky, Ilya
Kahf, Mohja
Keats, John
Kerouac, Jack
Lambert, Paula J.
Levertov, Denise
Lim Goh, Teow
Lorca, Federico García
Maddox, Marjorie
Malaviya, Shikha
Malone, Dave
McGough, Roger
Moore, Marianne
More, Hannah
Motion, Andrew
Munch, Edvard
Myers, Benjamin
Neruda, Pablo
O’Hara, Frank
Overstreet, Anne M. Doe
Padgett, Ron
Pasternak, Boris
Paterson, Don
Perdomo, Willie
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pryputniewicz, Tania
Rankine, Claudia
Reid, Christopher
Rich, Adrienne
Robertson, Robin
Rossetti, Christina
Runyan, Tania
SAID
Samaras, Nicholas
Sandburg, Carl
Sassoon, Siegfried
Schulman, Grace
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Smith, Patricia
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr< Spence, Michael
Sprackland, Jean
Stafford, William
Stanford, Frank
Stevens, Wallace
Stokesbury, Leon
Szymborska, Wisława
Teasdale, Sara
Thomas, Dylan
Tsvetaeva, Marina
Updike, John
Wheeler, Shanna Powlus
Whitman, Walt
Willets, Sam
Williams, Hugo
Williams, William Carlos
Wiman, Christian
Wordsworth, William
Wright, Charles
Yeats, William Butler
Yanique, Tiphanie
York, Jake Adam

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