Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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.

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Title	Author	Year
I Say the Thing for the First Time	Adrian Matejka	2019
The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude	Rita Dove	2013
Insomnia Etiquette	Rita Dove	2012
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude	Rita Dove	2012
[we are]	Quenton Baker	2019
ED ASNER	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2019
Derrida/Coleman	Taylor Johnson	2019
The Second Beautiful Harvest	Dante Micheaux	2019
For a Bail Denied	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2019
Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)	James Weldon Johnson	1917
Still Waiting	Harryette Mullen	2019
Second Law	Samiya Bashir	2017
The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season	Ladan Osman	2019
To the Negro Farmers of the United States	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	2019
To Theodore	George Marion McClellan	1916
What Came Looking For Me	Kevin Reese	2019
Toomer	Elizabeth Alexander	2010
Georgia Dusk	Jean Toomer	1923
Cotton Song	Jean Toomer	1923
In Defense of Henry Box Brown	Joshua Bennett	2018

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