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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 moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings. Donika Kelly 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
This Is Not a Small Voice Sonia Sanchez 2018
I, Too Langston Hughes 1994
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
Indeterminacy Charif Shanahan 2023
No Room to Form John S. Blake 2023
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Auf Wiedersehen Donald Jeffrey Hayes 1927
Inscription Donald Jeffrey Hayes 1927
The Black Madonna Albert Rice 1927
October Sonnet Adrian Matejka 2023
Neoteric Kama No Sutra Frank X Walker 2023
Boihood Jari Bradley 2023
Self-Care Faylita Hicks 2023

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