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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
After a Reading of “Darkwater” Elizabeth Curtis Holman 1920
Ironic: LL.D. William Stanley Braithwaite 1922
From “A Coda to History” Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella 2020
they need some of us to die Donte Collins 2020
From “Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters” Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung 2020
The Old Days (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Alt-Nature [Excerpt] Saretta Morgan 2020
[My ancestors are empty words] Kerry Carnahan 2020
Uncles Janice Lobo Sapigao 2018
Dreams Are Illegal Al Mills, Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha 2020
Revolutionary Kiss Tina Chang 2019
Genetic Abduction Honey Bell-Bey 2019
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
The History of Silence Emmy Pérez 2016
The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man! Porsha Olayiwola 2019
Civil War Rosemarie Dombrowski 2017
Sketches of American History Philip Freneau 1784
A Memorial Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The Famous Tay Whale William McGonagall 1890
The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall 1890

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