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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
three Black poems from August Danez Smith 2021
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
children of the drum Roscoe Burnems 2018
A Short History of Journey Aileen Cassinetto 2020
Haint Blue Aileen Cassinetto 2020
The America I Know Could Use a Good Cry Marcus Amaker 2020
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Realization Marilyn Nelson 2021
America is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
This Body Renée Watson 2019
Isabell* Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
Blues: Odysseus Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
The Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2020
Black Parade Darrel Alejandro Holnes 2020
The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances Martín Espada 2020
A Proclamation Ashaki M. Jackson 2020
Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet Daria-Ann Martineau 2020

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