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
A Tribute to the Future of My Race	Laura Cornelius Kellogg	1903
Given to Rust	Vievee Francis	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria]	Terrance Hayes	2017
Fly	Gary Jackson	2017
Very Many Hands	Aaron Coleman	2017
Touched by Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves	Sasha Pimentel	2017
Why Whales Are Back in New York City	Rajiv Mohabir	2017
Puerto Rico	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
Childhood in the Latin Caribbean	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
Tumbadora	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
On Being Told Prayer Is a Crutch	Marcus Wicker	2017
Watch Us Elocute	Marcus Wicker	2017
Make Me Human or Give Me Death	May Yang	2017
A Simple Trajectory	May Yang	2017
Crescendo	Teri Ellen Cross Davis	2017
Americans at Yad Vashem	Amanda Hawkins	2017
Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943	Sam Sax	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman]	Terrance Hayes	2017
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done	Victoria Chang	2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’	Danez Smith	2017

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