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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
Owed to the Durag Joshua Bennett 2018
In Defense of Henry Box Brown Joshua Bennett 2018
The Chil’ren Might Know Dominique Christina 2018
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch Joshua Bennett 2018
Mercy, Mercy, Me John Murillo 2018
Unrest in Baton Rouge Tracy K. Smith 2018
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. June Jordan 2018
Amos, 1963 Margaret Walker 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
2019 Rickey Laurentiis 2018
African Postman Kwame Dawes 2017
Land Ho Kwame Dawes 2017
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
“I’m Rooting for Everybody Black” Cortney Lamar Charleston 2018
King of Kreations Angel Nafis 2018
Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott’s “George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware” Anaïs Duplan 2018
Tending Elizabeth Alexander 2017

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