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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
Derrida/Coleman Taylor Johnson 2019
At a Deli Counter in Vermont Stephanie Burt 2019
Song of Myself, 37 Walt Whitman 1891
The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2018
Adrift Bao Phi 2018
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. June Jordan 2018
Amos, 1963 Margaret Walker 2018
Charlie Howard’s Descent Mark Doty 2016
On Repetition Omotara James 2024
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
Who Is Less Than a Vapor? Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2019
From “The Corpse at Stake Was a Dream We Felt Inside Of” Saretta Morgan 2024
We’re All Maroons Mikeas Sánchez 2024
Abeyance Rebecca Foust 2015
19th Amendment Ragtime Parade Marilyn Chin 2020
Managed Diversity Daniel Borzutzky 2018
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
On the Good Ship Elijah McClain Nikky Finney 2023
revolution of angels Marwa Helal 2022
Laundry Alicia Ostriker 2016

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