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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
The Plains of Peace Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1914
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money Tongo Eisen-Martin 2020
Lover's Lane Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Douce Souvenance Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
Power (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Black Mother Woman (audio only) Audre Lorde 1973
Supplication Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
ars pasifika Craig Santos Perez 2020
Tired Fenton Johnson 1920
The Old Suffragist Margaret Widdemer 1915
Assurance James Oppenheim 1924
The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For Tarfia Faizullah 2016
[Ah! the waving lespedeza,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Ledger Jane Hirshfield 2020
A Walk Round the Park Sandra Lim 2019
The Socialist and the Suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tall Ideas Adam Wolfond 2019
Smuggling Cherokee Kim Shuck 2019
that boy from georgia is coming through here Jaki Shelton Green 2019
For a Bail Denied Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019

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