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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
What Schools Don’t Teach Black Boys in America Today John Warner Smith 2021
A Song of Hope Charles Bertram Johnson 1921
Revery Fenton Johnson 1915
Villanelle Otto Leland Bohanan 1915
Still Life with Toy Gun Joshua Bennett 2020
Owed to Ankle Weights Joshua Bennett 2020
Nocturne Taylor Johnson 2017
Sidewalk Rage Pamela Sneed 2020
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
This Body Renée Watson 2019
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
Blues: Odysseus Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
The Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston* Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
The Mechanical Cotton Picker Tyree Daye 2020
The Motorcycle Queen Tyree Daye 2020
Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings Tyree Daye 2020
The Lyric Theatre: Lyceum of Dreams Nikky Finney 2020
Hysterical Strength Nicole Sealey 2017
The Puppet-Player Angelina Weld Grimké 1923

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