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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
Joke Maggie Smith 2018
Biographical Sketch Ira Sadoff 2018
The House at Long Lake Philip Metres 2018
Lines Composed at 34 North Park Street, on Certain Memories of My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Black People Like Myself. July 15, 2017 Shane McCrae 2018
The Anesthesia of Abstraction Teddy Macker 2018
A Joke About How Old We've Become Adam Clay 2018
Factors Mildred Barya 2018
Temple Example Sally Ball 2018
Florida Again Randall Mann 2018
Incantation Chris Abani 2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace. Patricia Smith 2018
Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open Barbara Jane Reyes 2018
The Average Mother Camille T. Dungy 2018
Before Marching, and After Thomas Hardy 1916
The Vast Hour Genevieve Taggard 1922
My Love Is Black DéLana R. A. Dameron 2018
If I Am Alive To Charif Shanahan 2018
Before Dawn David St. John 2018
Defiant Patricia Spears Jones 2018
Ode to the Duduk Peter Balakian 2018

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