Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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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Title	Author	Year
Triptych in Black and Blue	Tatiana Johnson-Boria	2023
The Specious Present	Catherine Barnett	2023
What I Was Looking For	Kathy Fagan	2023
Come On in the Song of the Changes	Ed Roberson	2023
Wild horse / Caballo salvaje	Nicole Cecilia Delgado	2022
( . . . As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)	Ed Roberson	2023
Black Earth Song	Ed Roberson	2023
How to swallow a colonizer	Noʻu Revilla	2022
Because Nāmakaokahaʻi killed her sister at Kaiwiopele	Noʻu Revilla	2023
Without Reparations	Lupita Eyde-Tucker	2023
Angry Black Woman in Root Worker Drag	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2015
EMDR	Tatiana Johnson-Boria	2023
Draft of an Ex-Colored Letter Sent Home From the Post-Race War Front	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2015
A Massive Aquarium Holding 1,500 Tropical Fish Bursts	Sarah Audsley	2023
Faith	SM Stubbs	2023
Hitch Hiker at a Truck Stop	Mary Crow	1996
My Egypt	Mary Crow	1996
The White Iris Beautifies Me	Cyrus Cassells	2018
Caesars and Dreamers	Cyrus Cassells	2018
Notes in the Margin	Glenis Redmond	2023

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