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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
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018
Beyond the Gazebo Catherine Wing 2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
Introduction to Mycology Chelsea Rathburn 2018
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace. Patricia Smith 2018
say it with your whole black mouth Danez Smith 2018
Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown] Kevin Young 2018
A Young Man Jericho Brown 2018
The Family Sells the Family Gun Brenda Hillman 2018
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World Martín Espada 2017
Hoodie January Gill O’Neil 2015
The Soldier’s Dream Duriel E. Harris 2018
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
Lightening Deborah Paredez 2017
a note on the body Danez Smith 2017
After Every There 3 Sally Van Doren 2017
Testimony Hafizah Augustus Geter 2017
Instructions for Stopping Dana Levin 2017
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016

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