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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
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis John Murillo 2020
Troubled Woman Langston Hughes 1926
Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler 2022
Fog Ruth Madievsky 2021
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
The Black Finger Angelina Weld Grimké 1925
Kiss Ellen Bass 2020
November Lynna Odel 2020
Soy Boricua Giannina Braschi 2011
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
How to Start Over Stuart Kestenbaum 2019
Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
Rabbit francine j. harris 2020
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson Robin Coste Lewis 2017
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
etymology Airea D. Matthews 2019
As a decrepit father takes delight (Sonnet 37) William Shakespeare 1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5) William Shakespeare 1904

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