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
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)	Nikki Giovanni	2017
Aubade	Camille Rankine	2017
the valley of its making	Nate Marshall	2017
A Place in the Country	Toi Derricotte	2017
Nomenclatures of Invisibility	Mahtem Shiferraw	2017
Violence, I know you	Khadijah Queen	2017
At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac	Samiya Bashir	2017
What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do	Parneshia Jones	2017
Frederick Douglass	Robert Hayden	2017
C.R.E.A.M.	Danez Smith	2017
The Bronze Legacy	Effie Lee Newsome	1922
Thompson and Seaman Vows, African Union Church	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Plantation	Charif Shanahan	2016
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	Thylias Moss	2016
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood	Derrick Austin	2016
Shared Plight	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
The Black Woman’s Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day	Douglas Kearney	2016
Incendiary Art	Patricia Smith	2016
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents After the War	Shane McCrae	2016
litany	Mahogany L. Browne	2016

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