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
For Paul Laurence Dunbar	Countee Cullen	1925
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Two Who Crossed a Line	Countee Cullen	1925
I Say the Thing for the First Time	Adrian Matejka	2019
Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen	Ruth Ellen Kocher	2016
Summer Rice	Linda Susan Jackson	2010
The Black Man’s Bit	Leslie Pinckney Hill	1921
For the Candlelight	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
Spring Reminiscence	Countee Cullen	1925
A Valentine	Priscilla Jane Thompson	1907
What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do	Parneshia Jones	2017
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	Thylias Moss	2016
Mr. President	Lester Graves Lennon	2025
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning	Countee Cullen	1927
Puck Goes to Court	Fenton Johnson	1927
Pagan Prayer	Countee Cullen	1925
Your Soul and Mine	Fenton Johnson	1916
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
From “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”	Yusef Komunyakaa	2017
Memorial Day	Clara Ann Thompson	1908

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