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
Daughters of War	Isaac Rosenberg	2018
In Defense of Henry Box Brown	Joshua Bennett	2018
The Chil’ren Might Know	Dominique Christina	2018
Anarcha Will Speak and It Will Be So	Dominique Christina	2018
Pain Scale	Catherine Barnett	2018
The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2018
Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League	Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.	1909
Alien, Part One	Martha Collins	2018
An Old Story	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Ghazal	Tracy K. Smith	2018
The Terror of Flight	Adam Clay	2018
America	Adam Clay	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14	Tiana Clark	2018
Annus Mirabilis	Sally Ball	2018
No Ruined Stone	Shara McCallum	2018
An Index	Philip Metres	2018
The Problem With Sappho	Charles Rafferty	2018
Diminution	Charles Rafferty	2018
Lines Composed at 34 North Park Street, on Certain Memories of My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Black People Like Myself. July 15, 2017	Shane McCrae	2018

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