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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
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 1994
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
A Far Cry from Africa Derek Walcott 2007
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou 1993
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
Matrilineage [umbilicus] Sarah Ghazal Ali 2023
Audience Maritza N. Estrada 2023
Immigration Sarah Gambito 2009
[by way of entry you sit with an object] Chaun Webster 2023
Decolonialish Self-Portrait Sara Borjas 2023
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
a force is a push or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america) Giovannai Rosa 2023
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
Fugal Santee Frazier 2023
Tropical Town Salomón de la Selva 1918
From “Information Desk: An Epic” [Sometimes on my break] Robyn Schiff 2023

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