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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
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
The Grey Thread Elsa Gidlow 1923
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
Fire Dragon Sage Uʻilani Takehiro 2022
Primer for Blacks (audio only) Gwendolyn Brooks
Time, Zeina Hashem Beck 2022
Imperfect Michael Simms 2022
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Lullaby Dorothy Parker 1926
At the New York City AIDS Memorial Stefania Gomez 2022
Why So This Quiet Carl Phillips 2022
Afraid Langston Hughes 1926
Lament for Dark Peoples Langston Hughes 1926
Negro Dancers Langston Hughes 1926
Drunktown Jake Skeets 2018
My Mother Claude McKay 1922
Ballad Diane Seuss 2021
Rock Paper Scissors Arthur Sze 2021
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
Dark Eye in September Paul Celan 2020

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