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
Notes on the Peanut	June Jordan	2017
John Henry crosses the threshold—	Samiya Bashir	2017
Sherbet	Cornelius Eady	2017
Given to Rust	Vievee Francis	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria]	Terrance Hayes	2017
Fly	Gary Jackson	2017
Watch Us Elocute	Marcus Wicker	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman]	Terrance Hayes	2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’	Danez Smith	2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades	June Jordan	2017
Soul Train	Allison Joseph	2017
Thirty Lines About the ’Fro	Allison Joseph	2017
Hear the Light	Geffrey Davis	2017
the smoke of the country went up	Iain Haley Pollock	2017
Rocksteady	Ishion Hutchinson	2017
America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me	Shane McCrae	2017
From “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”	Yusef Komunyakaa	2017
The African Picnic	Elizabeth Alexander	2017
Close Encounters	Marcus Wicker	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name]	Terrance Hayes	2017

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