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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
b&w sonnet no. 1 giovanni singleton 2022
Timid Lover Countee Cullen 1922
Finis Waring Cuney 1922
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
Dusk Song William H. A. Moore 1922
A Road for Loss Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
Envy Emelihter Kihleng 2022
Menopause C. Prudence Arceneaux 2022
Primer for Blacks (audio only) Gwendolyn Brooks
I Am Bound, I Am Bound, For A Distant Shore Henry David Thoreau 1943
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon Patricia Smith 2022
What’s Broken Dorianne Laux 2007
Port Town Langston Hughes 1926
Russet Kevin Young 2021
Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song torrin a. greathouse 2021
Burden, old story. francine j. harris 2021
The Carillon Rosalía de Castro 1920
Beggar Boy Langston Hughes 1926
Home Thoughts Claude McKay 1922
Ocean Water Dasha Kelly Hamilton 2021

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