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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Southern Road | Sterling A. Brown | Free verse | 1930 |
Scotty Has His Say | Sterling A. Brown | Ballad | 1932 |
Memphis Blues | Sterling A. Brown | Other | 1931 |
Slim in Atlanta | Sterling A. Brown | Ballad | 1932 |
Slim in Hell | Sterling A. Brown | Ballad | 1932 |
Rent Day Blues | Sterling A. Brown | Ballad | 1932 |
Old Lem | Sterling A. Brown | Other | 1939 |
Sharecroppers | Sterling A. Brown | Other | 1939 |
Southern Cop | Sterling A. Brown | Other | 1936 |
Choices | Sterling A. Brown | Tercet | 1939 |
Seduced by Natassja Kinski | Ana Castillo | Free verse | 1991 |
Hummingbird Heart | Ana Castillo | Free verse | 1990 |
How I Got That Name | Marilyn Chin | Free verse | 1994 |
Altar | Marilyn Chin | Free verse | 1994 |
Little Clown, My Heart | Sandra Cisneros | Free verse | 1994 |
I am Accused of Tending to the Past | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1991 |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1991 |
reply | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1991 |
the message of crazy horse | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1987 |
poem to my uterus | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1991 |
to my last period | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1991 |
brothers | Lucille Clifton | Free verse | 1993 |
Marriage | Marianne Moore | Free verse | 1924 |
Bomb | Gregory Corso | Free verse | 1958 |
The Pool | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1915 |
Oread | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1914 |
Mid-Day | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1916 |
Sea Rose | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1916 |
Garden | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1916 |
The Helmsman | H(ilda) D(oolittle) | Free verse | 1916 |