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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
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou 1993
A Far Cry from Africa Derek Walcott 2007
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes 1926
A House Called Tomorrow Alberto Ríos 2018
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 1994
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
Paul Robeson Gwendolyn Brooks 1970
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
My earth which is mine will always make more of itself Kamelya Omayma Youssef 2026
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra Marilyn Chin 1987
Dear New Blood Mark Turcotte 2020
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
A Pact Ezra Pound 1913
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God” Yona Harvey 2020
My People Langston Hughes 1922

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