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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.

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Six Long Hours in Los Angeles Leonard Bacon 1927
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
From “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” L. Lamar Wilson 2024
[American Journal] Alison C. Rollins 2024
The Arab Crosses into Los Estados Unidos Philip Metres 2024
With My Redneck Sons in Southern Indiana Willis Barnstone 2015
Black History Miles Hardingwood 2023
Prayer for 2018 Cecilia Woloch 2024
On the Q Barbara Henning 2016
Here We Are Barbara Henning 2015
America Strange Tony Barnstone 2018
Seventeen Haiku Stanzas for Richard Wright Anthony Walton 2019
The Black Man’s Bit Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
From “The Stuff of Hollywood” Niki Herd 2024
Abolition of Slavery in District of Columbia James Madison Bell 1901
“Integrated School Books” Arpeggio A. Van Jordan 2024
First South Melissa Range 2024
Fog Lawrence Joseph 2020
The Patient Ones Tongo Eisen-Martin 2023
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009

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