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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
Close Your Eyes! Arna Bontemps 1927
black love Evie Shockley 2023
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
off the shore of oneself as in . . . Renia White 2023
Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden John Yau 2022
From “Giornata” Gregory Pardlo 2022
Bare Minimum or: To-Do List for White America KB Brookins 2022
black hair KB Brookins 2022
Country of Water Mahogany L. Browne 2022
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
Inupiaq Women dg nanouk okpik 2022
Unarcheology of ‘Father’ George Abraham 2022
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits Crisosto Apache 2022
My English Letter Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Shadow River Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
Thank God for Hard Feelings Haesong Kwon 2022
I Was a Hero Once James Cagney 2022

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