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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
Uncle Jim Countee Cullen 1922
sky hammer Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2022
The Pirate Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Envy Emelihter Kihleng 2022
The Delinquent Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Song of Perfect Propriety Dorothy Parker 1926
The Dark Girl’s Rhyme Dorothy Parker 1926
Length of Moon Arna Bontemps 1926
Childhood Elegy Joseph O. Legaspi 2007
Life is a Place Where it’s Forbidden to Live Jackie Wang 2021
The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer Hoa Nguyen 2021
For Henry’s Bar Joseph Rios 2021
Serenity Charles Bertram Johnson 1918
POLITIES &/or SONNETS Joan Retallack 2021
The River Village Tu Fu 1921
A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood Dāshaun Washington 2021
Memory George Moses Horton 1845
On Broadway Claude McKay 1922
Upstream Carl Sandburg 1922
Escape Georgia Douglas Johnson 1925

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