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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
Field Notes on Beginning Tyree Daye 2018
From “Descent” Lauren Russell 2018
In the First Place of My Life Ray Young Bear 2018
To See as Far as the Grandfather World Ray Young Bear 2018
Land Ho Kwame Dawes 2017
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Flores Woman Tracy K. Smith 2017
Tending Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Evasive Me Marcus Jackson 2017
Leaving Tulsa Jennifer Foerster 2017
An Inheritance Naomi Replansky 2018
A Tribute to the Future of My Race Laura Cornelius Kellogg 1903
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
I Asked the Man in the White Robe Where He Was From Jay Leeming 2017
The Clans Richard Calmit Adams 2017
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
A Simple Trajectory May Yang 2017
Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943 Sam Sax 2017
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017

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