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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
For Trayvon Martin Reuben Jackson 2015
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Dear J. Kazim Ali 2013
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922
The Valley of Unrest Edgar Allan Poe 1831
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses Alberto Ríos 1990
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard Charles Wright 1995
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
A Certain Point Edgar Kunz 2026
Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead Daniel B. Summerhill 2026
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025

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