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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.

Title Author Year
Glory Gbenga Adesina 2020
To Our Friends Lucian B. Watkins 1922
To a Skull Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1922
Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser, 1984” Kristina Kay Robinson 2020
Judith and Holofernes A. H. Jerriod Avant 2020
Ode to the Head Nod Elizabeth Acevedo 2020
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
Peacock Feather Effie Lee Newsome 1922
My People Langston Hughes 1922
Measured Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 2020
Afterward but not Afterword A. Van Jordan 2020
Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2) Joshua Bennett 2020
The Tired Worker Claude McKay 1922
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Summer Magic Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Christmas at Melrose Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Tuskegee Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922

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