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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
Abolition of Slavery in District of Columbia James Madison Bell 1901
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
Black Dandelion Semaj Brown 2019
Reparation Joshua Bennett 2020
Q. Yona Harvey 2020
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God” Yona Harvey 2020
Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime Yona Harvey 2020
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
Isabell* Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
Fracture Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Edmonia Lewis and I Weather the Storm Xan Forest Phillips 2019
Social Death, an Address Xan Forest Phillips 2019
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
Peacock Feather Effie Lee Newsome 1922
My People Langston Hughes 1922
Praise Angelo Geter 2020
Tired Fenton Johnson 1920
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863 Kiki Petrosino 2020
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) Aaron Coleman 2020

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