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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
A Wish Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1921
In the High Country David St. John 2021
What Schools Don’t Teach Black Boys in America Today John Warner Smith 2021
A Song of Hope Charles Bertram Johnson 1921
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
She Told Me the Earth Loves Us Anne Haven McDonnell 2020
I Have Been a Fortune Teller Giannina Braschi 1988
The Check In Nandi Comer 2020
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes." Elizabeth Jacobson 2019
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The Vale of Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed 2020
We are Marching Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1920
Brown Love Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2020
wishing Jaki Shelton Green 2019
#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa Lee Ann Roripaugh 2019
The Old Orphan Charles Simic 2019
pitter/patter heidi andrea restrepo rhodes 2019
Fall Didi Jackson 2019
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend] Terrance Hayes 2019

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