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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
Shared Plight Kamilah Aisha Moon 2016
Bring Back Our Girls Marwa Helal 2018
River C. T. Salazar 2024
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto III, LI) Albery Allson Whitman 1885
Another Poem About a Mountain Joseph Rios 2019
Midnight Air in Louisville Afaa Michael Weaver 2022
Oak Park Mutters Statistics Kyla Pereles 2022
Naming the Baby Yesenia Montilla 2021
Battlegrounds Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo 2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd Toi Derricotte 2020
Mexican American Sublime Rodney Gomez 2020
Our Idea of Nothing at All Alice Duer Miller 1915
So Many JD Pluecker 2019
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch Joshua Bennett 2018
Negro Women Employ Complaints Glenis Redmond 2024
When You Hit Yourself with an Axe While Chopping Wood Tomica Bajsić 2025
Poem About My Life Mattering Tawanda Mulalu 2022
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!) Marilyn Hacker 2020
A Bridge on Account of Sex: A Trans Woman Speaks to Susan B. Anthony on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Joy Ladin 2020
Eliza Harris Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857

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