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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
Loss John Wieners 2015
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
The Lives of the Saints Julia B. Levine 2021
The Washer-Woman Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
Blight Arna Bontemps 1922
Finis Waring Cuney 1922
Two-An’-Six Claude McKay 1922
“So Quietly” Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Before Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Relinquishment Elsa Gidlow 1923
O Black and Unknown Bards James Weldon Johnson 1922
Sandy Star William Stanley Braithwaite 1922
Dusk Song William Moore 1922
It Was Not Fate William Moore 1922
’Weh Down Souf Daniel Webster Davis 1922
The Road To The Bow James D. Corrothers 1922
When Ol’ Sis’ Judy Pray James Edwin Campbell 1922
From the Arabic Ameen Rihani 1921
Whānau Ngaio Simmons 2022

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