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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
Protest Countee Cullen 1927
Homing Arna Bontemps 1927
Substitution Anne Spencer 1927
black love Evie Shockley 2023
This Beautiful Planet Dorothea Lasky 2023
The Way-Side Well Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1927
From the Stone Age Alice Corbin Henderson 1918
Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship Camonghne Felix 2023
Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance? A. H. Jerriod Avant 2023
Edensong Peter Cole 2022
Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing Matthew Wimberley 2023
I’m Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest Paige Lewis 2023
A Gull Goes Up Léonie Adams 1925
off the shore of oneself as in . . . Renia White 2023
The Need Is So Great Jim Moore 2022
New Year’s Chimes Francis Thompson 1897
Chorus Peter Streckfus 2022
Abstract with Red Square Jenny Xie 2022
Mazel Tov Jessica Jacobs 2021
apocalyptic lyric Cintia Santana 2022

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