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
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
what we did while waiting for the rain	Afua Ansong	2022
The African Mother	Francisco Acuña de Figueroa	1918
Memorial Wreath	Dudley Randall	2009
We Drink at the Attenuation Well	Porsha Olayiwola	2020
Time to Die	Raymond Garfield Dandridge	1922
A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth	Salaam Green	2025
[American Journal]	Alison C. Rollins	2024
My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral	Mahogany L. Browne	2024
Half-light	Dāshaun Washington	2025
Caliban Theory	Malcolm Friend	2025
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLV)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XLI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, VI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, II)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, I)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885

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