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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
Calling Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1920
Owed to Ankle Weights Joshua Bennett 2020
The Mechanical Cotton Picker Tyree Daye 2020
Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings Tyree Daye 2020
Color Tina Chang 2019
Stars John Warner Smith 2016
Dumb-Bells John Crowe Ransom 1919
Telling Fortunes Alice Cary 1896
A Song Lucretia Maria Davidson 1841
To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut Philip Freneau 1816
On Retirement Philip Freneau 1786
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
Music Alice Cary 1903
And One David Tomas Martinez 2018
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude Rita Dove 2013
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude Rita Dove 2012
Eve Remembering Toni Morrison 2002
All the Love You’ve Got Carl Phillips 2019
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994

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