Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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.

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Title	Author	Year
ER S/P GSW	Paul Hlava Ceballos	2023
On the day of the trial Black America lost, again	KB Brookins	2023
Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America	Jasminne Mendez	2023
How We Lived	Emma Trelles	2020
Hope 2020	Ashanti Files	2022
The Neighbor’s Street Sirens Sing	Ed Roberson	2022
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow)	Cyrus Cassells	2020
Ready! Aim! Fire!	Cyrus Cassells	2020
The Mud Sermon	Ishion Hutchinson	2021
In the Event Of	Shane McCrae	2021
What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old	Duriel E. Harris	2021
Undelivered Message to the Sky: November 9, 2016	Kemi Alabi	2019
Custody	Luisa A. Igloria	2021
In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t	Achy Obejas	2021
On the Last Day, the Bullet is Asked	Sadia Hassan	2021
Assume the Position	Jive Poetic	2020
Underground King	Derrick Harriell	2020
Measured	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2020
they need some of us to die	Donte Collins	2020
Diplomacy	Robbi Nester	2020

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