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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
A Birth Mother Wears A Costume Her Daughter Will Never Fit In Lynne Thompson 2020
When Nothing Else Will Do Lynne Thompson 2021
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) Cyrus Cassells 2020
A Wading KaNikki Jakarta 2022
Per aspera ad astra Huascar Medina 2017
New American Huascar Medina 2020
Mi Isla Huascar Medina 2020
Is it Because I am Black Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Negro Poets Charles Bertram Johnson 1922
Uncle Jim Countee Cullen 1922
Song of My Muhammad Ashley M. Jones 2019
This Side Up Emanuelee Bean 2019
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1922
Memphis Blues Sterling A. Brown 1922
Strong Men Sterling A. Brown 1922
God Give to Men Arna Bontemps 1922
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
[subterranean / dreaming grace roots] Nat Raha 2022
Two-An’-Six Claude McKay 1922

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