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
The Chil’ren Might Know	Dominique Christina	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
2019	Rickey Laurentiis	2018
African Postman	Kwame Dawes	2017
Land Ho	Kwame Dawes	2017
Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott’s “George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware”	Anaïs Duplan	2018
John Henry crosses the threshold—	Samiya Bashir	2017
Hear the Light	Geffrey Davis	2017
the smoke of the country went up	Iain Haley Pollock	2017
Rocksteady	Ishion Hutchinson	2017
America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me	Shane McCrae	2017
From “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”	Yusef Komunyakaa	2017
Close Encounters	Marcus Wicker	2017
Violence, I know you	Khadijah Queen	2017
At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac	Samiya Bashir	2017
Plantation	Charif Shanahan	2016
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	Thylias Moss	2016
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood	Derrick Austin	2016
Shared Plight	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
The Black Woman’s Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day	Douglas Kearney	2016

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