Poems Explore our poems Our growing archive extends from past to present, gathering celebrated poets of history alongside great contemporary writers Showing 121-160 of 185 poems All Text Films Grid List Genetics By Sinéad Morrissey Read by Bríd Brennan Watch poem → Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop By John Murillo Watch poem → Belfast Pastoral By Emma Must Watch poem → You City, You Boyfriend By Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan Watch poem → The Architectural Metaphor By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Read by Venetia Bowe Watch poem → Caitlín (Cathleen) By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Read by Marie Mullen Watch poem → He's Just Not That Into You By Ciara Ní É Watch poem → Run (it’s dark outside) By Ciara Ní É Watch poem → Brightening By Doireann Ní Ghríofa Watch poem → Half Written Love Letter By Selina Nwulu Watch poem → My Son the Man By Sharon Olds Read by Elizabeth Marvel Watch poem → River Stars from a Grotto By Abby Oliveira Watch poem → The Sharp-Breasted Snake By Louis Little Coon Oliver Read by Jennifer Elise Foerster Watch poem → What If the Sound of the Humpback Whale Lived in My Mouth? By Yaddyra Peralta Watch poem → Blizzard By Carl Phillips Read by Bernard Ferguson Watch poem → Corral By Carl Phillips Read by Brian Blanchfield Watch poem → Epitaph for Fire and Flower By Sylvia Plath Read by Jensen Gray Watch poem → Justice, Come Down By Minnie Bruce Pratt Read by Keetje Kuipers Watch poem → It Would Sound Like a Dream By Camille Rankine Watch poem → A Pumpkin By Padraig Regan Watch poem → Frederick Douglass Aboard a Sonnet of the Atlantic By Kimberly Reyes Watch poem → Stain in Creases By Kimberly Reyes Watch poem → The City Kids See the Sea By Roger Robinson Watch poem → Arrancaba las flores y se las comía / Tearing Out and Eating Flowers By Legna Rodríguez Iglesias Watch poem → Monk Style By Kay Ryan Read by Pedja Muzijevic Watch poem → Malecón/Miami By Leslie Sainz Watch poem → Hydrogen By Sarah M. Sala Watch poem → Shimmer By James Schuyler Read by Padraig Regan Watch poem → Even the Gods By Nicole Sealey Watch poem → Segue By Stephen Sexton Watch poem → The Burdens By Stephen Sexton Watch poem → from Richard III By William Shakespeare Read by Aaron Monaghan Watch poem → Sonnet 60 By William Shakespeare Read by Simon Callow Watch poem → The Sky By Natalie Shapero Read by Cecilia Knapp Watch poem → From the Confinement By Evgeny Shtorn Watch poem → Drunktown By Jake Skeets Watch poem → king the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow By Danez Smith Read by Ato Blankson-Wood Watch poem → Another Attempt at Rescue By M. L. Smoker Watch poem → The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous – Chapter 1 By M. L. Smoker Watch poem → For Mac By Jack Spicer Read by CAConrad Watch poem → 1 2 3 4 5 ← Previous page Next page →