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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
No Explosions Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Before I Was a Gazan Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
On Marriage Marilyn Hacker 2016
How to Dismantle a Heart Rodney Gomez 2018
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
Passive Voice Laura Da’ 2017
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
I want Jordan Jace 2022
Boys Will Be Boys Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
Why We Oppose Votes for Men Alice Duer Miller 1915
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
Invocation Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1860
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020

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