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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
litany Mahogany L. Browne 2016
Translation for Mamá Richard Blanco 2016
Praxis Wendy Xu 2016
Lesvos Christopher Bakken 2016
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there] Claudia Rankine 2016
Double Exposure May Swenson 2016
Charlie Howard’s Descent Mark Doty 2016
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Oshi James L. White 2016
Aubade to Langston Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
not an elegy for Mike Brown Danez Smith 2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Ways to Be White in a Poem Ailish Hopper 2016
Race/Race Martha Collins 2016
Dressing Down Kamilah Aisha Moon 2016
Manchild Cornelius Eady 2016
At the Mall, There’s a Machine That Tells You If You Are Racist Karen Skolfield 2016
Twinkle, Twinkle, Morning Star Craig Santos Perez 2016

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