To aid direct searches for poems, all of the currently available poems are listed below with the associated poet, poetic form, and initial publication year. Poems can also be filtered by these criteria using the sidebar on the right.
Poem Title | Poet | Poetic Form | Publication Year |
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At the Crossroad | Paul Blackburn | Free verse | 1957 |
At the Well | Paul Blackburn | Free verse | |
Counting Small-Boned Bodies | Robert Bly | Free verse | 1967 |
Hearing Gary Snyder Read | Robert Bly | Prose poem | 1971 |
The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach | Robert Bly | Free verse | 1973 |
Medusa | Louise Bogan | Quatrain | 1923 |
The Crows | Louise Bogan | Quatrain | 1923 |
Women | Louise Bogan | Quatrain | 1923 |
Cassandra | Louise Bogan | Free verse | 1929 |
The Alchemist | Louise Bogan | Other | 1923 |
The Dragonfly | Louise Bogan | Free verse | 1963 |
A Black Man Talks of Reaping | Arna Bontemps | Quatrain | 1926 |
Southern Mansion | Arna Bontemps | Free verse | 1931 |
Miracles | Arna Bontemps | Quatrain | 1931 |
A Communication to Nancy Cunard | Kay Boyle | Free verse | 1937 |
At Tikal | William Bronk | Blank verse | 1956 |
The Mayan Glyphs Unread | William Bronk | Blank verse | 1969 |
I Thought It Was Harry | William Bronk | Blank verse | 1971 |
Where It Ends | William Bronk | Quatrain | 1975 |
Left Alone | William Bronk | Blank verse | 1993 |
A Song in the Front Yard | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | 1945 |
The Blackstone Rangers | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | 1968 |
Malcolm X | Gwendolyn Brooks | Blank verse | 1968 |
Young Afrikans | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | |
The Boy Died In My Alley | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | 1975 |
To Those of My Sisters Who Keep Their Naturals | Gwendolyn Brooks | Free verse | 1980 |
The Slim Greer Sequence | Sterling A. Brown | Ballad | |
Refugee Ship | Lorna Dee Cervantes | Quatrain | 1981 |
Poema Para Los Californios Muertos | Lorna Dee Cervantes | Free verse | 1981 |
Starfish | Lorna Dee Cervantes | Free verse |