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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 Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
Poem Helene Johnson 1927
I’ve Got the Covid Blues Tony Medina 2022
All the Time Blues Villanelle Tim Seibles 2022
Blues on Yellow Marilyn Chin 2018
Sence you went away James Weldon Johnson 1922
Blind Boone’s Apparitions Tyehimba Jess 2016
Spring 1931 Sam Cornish 2015
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927

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