There are 184 Poems about Food & Drink

"It's such a shock, I almost screech"
By William Cole

1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
By June Jordan

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

XI Mon. January [1736] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Display of Mackerel
By Mark Doty

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A pot poured out
By Samuel Menashe

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Toast
By Peter Balakian

A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley

A Young Lady of Lynn
By Anonymous

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

All Wet
By Marie Ponsot

Apollo
By Elizabeth Alexander

Appetite
By Paulann Petersen

“No Thank You, I Don’t Care For Artichokes,”
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan

Beer
By George Arnold

Blasting from Heaven
By Philip Levine

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Boston Year
By Elizabeth Alexander

Breakfast
By Mary Lamb

Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander

Canned Food Drive
By Kathleen Lynch

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Chinese New Year
By Lynda Hull

Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Confession
By Reginald Gibbons

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Deaf Night at O'Donnell's
By Art Nahill

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Dog Gospel
By Brian Barker

Early Cascade
By Lucia Perillo

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Eating Together
By Kim Addonizio

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
By Christopher Smart

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest
By Robert Louis Stevenson

First Coca-Cola
By Rodney Jones

Fish or Like Fish
By Joel Brouwer

Food
By Brenda Hillman

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

Fork
By Charles Simic

From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee

Frying Trout While Drunk
By Lynn Emanuel

Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

His Farewell to Sack
By Robert Herrick

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner
By Bernadette Mayer

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
By Edward Taylor

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
By Charles Bukowski

I Eat My Peas with Honey
By Anonymous

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Ikebana
By Cathy Song

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

Incident
By Eamon Grennan

Last Call
By Randall Mann

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Little Fugue
By John Peck

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Man
By George Herbert

Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Morning
By Billy Collins

Morning After
By Langston Hughes

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary
By John Lyly

On A Diet
By William Matthews

On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
By Mary Szybist

Onions
By William Matthews

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Our Hired Girl
By James Whitcomb Riley

Oystering
By Richard Howard

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Parthenogenesis
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Politics
By William Meredith

Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Runaways Café II
By Marilyn Hacker

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Sober Song
By Barton Sutter

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Susie Asado
By Gertrude Stein

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Thanksgiving Magic
By Rowena Bastin Bennett

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Body
By Marianne Boruch

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Emperor of Ice-Cream
By Wallace Stevens

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Invention of Cuisine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

The Old World
By Charles Simic

The Orange
By Wendy Cope

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Tunning of Elenor Rumming
By John Skelton

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Vegetables
By James McMichael

The Veggie Life
By Michael Steffen

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

They eat out
By Margaret Atwood

Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station
By Amy Lowell

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
By Helen Maria Williams

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
By Alan Dugan

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

Wine
By David Wojahn

Wine
By Pierre Martory

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Wonderbread
By Alfred Corn