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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
Ode for Memorial Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Witch Hindu Shivanee Ramlochan 2021
From “In the After” Tonya M. Foster 2021
Almost Majnun Semaj Brown 2019
And That Fast, You’re Thinking About Their Bodies Threa Almontaser 2020
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 Daniel Borzutzky 2020
Woman in Dub Desiree C. Bailey 2020
Duplex: Black Mamas Praying Antoinette Brim-Bell 2020
My dad buried two dogs in the backyard: Barbara Fant 2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd Toi Derricotte 2020
Measured Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 2020
Blood Moon Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More Matt Donovan 2019
The Uncanny Valley Kimberly Reyes 2019
For Rashan Charles Raymond Antrobus 2019
Defiant Patricia Spears Jones 2018
Landscape with Written Statement Lynn Melnick 2018
Front Yard Rhyme Cecily Parks 2018
Kafka’s Axe & Michael’s Vest Chen Chen 2017
In Two Seconds Mark Doty 2016

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