Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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.

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Title	Author	Year
Thompson and Seaman Vows, African Union Church	Marilyn Nelson	2016
The Venus of Milo	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1910
Four Epitaphs	Countee Cullen	1927
When I Die	Fenton Johnson	1927
Theft	Esther Popel	1925
Heritage	Countee Cullen	1925
Tired	Fenton Johnson	1920
Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)	James Weldon Johnson	1917
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria]	Terrance Hayes	2017
Spring 1931	Sam Cornish	2015
there is no flash	Metta Sáma	2015
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
From the German of Uhland	Ludwig Uhland	1927
Bread and Wine	Countee Cullen
For Paul Laurence Dunbar	Countee Cullen	1925
Nothingness	Dawn Lundy Martin	2019
“I’m Rooting for Everybody Black”	Cortney Lamar Charleston	2018
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Two Who Crossed a Line	Countee Cullen	1925
From the Dark Tower	Countee Cullen	1927

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