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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
My People Langston Hughes 1922
Praise Angelo Geter 2020
Tired Fenton Johnson 1920
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863 Kiki Petrosino 2020
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) Aaron Coleman 2020
When Fannie Lou Hamer Said Mahogany L. Browne 2020
We are Marching Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1920
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Inheritance Camille Rankine 2019
White Things Anne Spencer 1923
Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive? Remica Bingham-Risher 2019
Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future) Yona Harvey 2018
A New National Anthem Ada Limón 2018
To Prisoners Gwendolyn Brooks 2018
Accommodation Camisha L. Jones 2018
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria] Terrance Hayes 2017
In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” Nicole Sealey 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
A People’s Historian Kenneth Carroll 2016

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