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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
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
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Testimony Hafizah Augustus Geter 2017
The Small Claim of Bones Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither Sandra María Esteves 2017
Autobiography of a Nuyorican Sandra María Esteves 2017
Thirty Lines About the ’Fro Allison Joseph 2017
Natural Criminal Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
This Is What Makes Us Worlds Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2017
Circe H.D. 2018

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