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
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Chorus of the Mothers-Griot	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2014
Imagine	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2014
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Motown Philly Back Again	Harmony Holiday	2013
From “Also Birds”	Dawn Lundy Martin	2011
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
playing with fire	Evie Shockley	2011
At the Carnival	Anne Spencer	1922
Rambling	Afaa Michael Weaver	2007
What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know	Afaa Michael Weaver	2011
Summer Rice	Linda Susan Jackson	2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2010
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
America	Claude McKay	1921
O Black and Unknown Bards	James Weldon Johnson	1922
Old Black Men	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Black Woman	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
La Vie C’est La Vie	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1922

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