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
The Word for Gossip	Eric Gansworth	2020
Summer Job	Joshua Bennett	2020
zero in on	Claire Hong	2020
From “Defacing the Monument”	Susan Briante	2020
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God”	Yona Harvey	2020
Soy Boricua	Giannina Braschi	2011
Black Parade	Darrel Alejandro Holnes	2020
Along the Border	Jasminne Mendez	2020
The Black Queen	Carrie Law Morgan Figgs	1921
The Puppet-Player	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
Assume the Position	Jive Poetic	2020
Diabolic	Cornelius Eady	2020
sonnet for the long second act	Evie Shockley	2020
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
Free	Kevin Killian	2008
Francis Turner	Edgar Lee Masters	1915
To a No. 2 Yellow Pencil on May 1, 2020	Kimiko Hahn	2020
What I Think About When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”	Beth Ann Fennelly	2017
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness	Shane McCrae	2020
Through Time and Bitter Distance	Emily Pauline Johnson	1912

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