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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
In the Discount Lot Angela C. Trudell Vasquez 2021
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
iced out chain from the beauty supply by Halsted Indoor Mall Nate Marshall 2021
STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED: On Imagining That Freedom Probably Feels Like Getting the Itis Jacqui Germain 2021
Distracted from COVID-19, Attention Shifts to MIA Maiden from Land O’Lakes Butter Box Tiffany Midge 2020
zero in on Claire Meuschke 2020
From “Defacing the Monument” Susan Briante 2020
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 Daniel Borzutzky 2020
8th & Ingraham Taylor Johnson 2019
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
September 11 Giannina Braschi 2001
Love in the City José Martí 2002
The Mechanical Cotton Picker Tyree Daye 2020
From Barrio Obrero to La Quince Nicole Cecilia Delgado 2020
Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over Joy Priest 2020
sample collected from a superfund site makalani bandele 2020
From “Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity” Dawn Lundy Martin 2020
Nothing Krysten Hill 2020
Governor’s Mansion Hands Sean Hill 2020
My People Langston Hughes 1922

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