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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
Mother Luis G. Dato 1926
The Story Hieu Minh Nguyen 2014
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
The Grey Thread Elsa Gidlow 1923
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
The Bumblebee James Whitcomb Riley 1890
Preparation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Primer for Blacks (audio only) Gwendolyn Brooks
Imperfect Michael Simms 2022
The New Love Dorothy Parker 1926
Lament for Dark Peoples Langston Hughes 1926
Negro Dancers Langston Hughes 1926
In the Fields Jake Skeets 2019
I Was a Good Wife Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2021
Beat, Old Heart Carl Sandburg 1922
If You Tell It Backward Porsha Olayiwola 2021
Hickory Street, New Orleans Yona Harvey 2020
Dark Eye in September Paul Celan 2020
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field Beth Ann Fennelly 2009

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