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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
Pre-Existing Conditions Debra Marquart 2012
Orchard Luisa A. Igloria 2020
children of the drum Roscoe Burnems 2018
Once There Was a Tree Chasity Gunn 2020
Diary from an AIDS Ward,1984 Magdalena Gómez 2017
The America I Know Could Use a Good Cry Marcus Amaker 2020
Remote Disjunctions Mónica de la Torre 2021
Muscular Fantasy Terrance Hayes 2021
Looking for the Beautiful Things Joy Priest 2021
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
The Birthday Interviews Derrick Austin 2021
It’s Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends— Cortney Lamar Charleston 2021
Boletus Rosanna Warren 2021
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence Camille T. Dungy 2021
Flora numérica/Numeric Flora Mara Pastor, María José Giménez 2017
Custody Luisa A. Igloria 2021
In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t Achy Obejas 2021

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