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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
Bare Minimum or: To-Do List for White America KB Brookins 2022
Wild Thing Nickole Brown 2018
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
Truth Is Mortal Too-qua-stee 1901
Proof James Cagney 2022
America, I Am James Cagney 2022
Between Fulmination and Adoration Lois P. Jones 2022
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Poem About My Life Mattering Tawanda Mulalu 2022
house hunting as an act of faith t’ai freedom ford 2022
The Story of Everything Kealoha 2018
The Start Matt Mason 2021
The Negro Soldiers Roscoe C. Jamison 1922
Dissent and the Hydra Jena Osman 2022
Courage Song for Scott Warren Cyrus Cassells 2022
Clarinet Cyrus Cassells 2022
The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency Cyrus Cassells 2022
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) Cyrus Cassells 2020

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