Browse and read this list of the most beautiful and best poems written by famous African-American Poets from the classical poetry to the latest new modern ones...
Best African-American Poetry
- A Good Woman by Miz P Floes
- A Great Beauty by Cyrus Cassells
- A guy I met on Tinder took me to see Lionel Richie at Red Rocks Amphitheater by Khadijah Queen
- A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails by Nikki Giovanni
- A Homeless Spirit by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- A Hymn to the Peoples by W. E. B. Du Bois
- A Kind of Meadow by Carl Phillips
- A Lady Friend by Alfred Islay Walden
- A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
- A Litany Of Atlanta by W. E. B. Du Bois
- A Love Poem Written for Sterling Brown by Sonia Sanchez
- A Mathematical Problem in Verse by Benjamin Banneker
- A Memory of June by Claude McKay
- A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America by Helene Johnson
- A Mona Lisa by Angelina Weld Grimké
- A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A Neo-Folklore by Ahmos Zu-Bolton
- A New Day Dawns by Nikky Finney
- A New Day- The Same Day by Dr. Christopher Davis
- A New Fragrance by Francine J. Harris
- A Note on My Son's Face by Toi Derricotte
- A Parting Hymn by Charlotte Forten Grimké
- A Pentinent Considers Another Coming Of Mary by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- A Picture Story For The Curious by Alice Walker
- A Place Called Tomorrow by Idiong Divine
- A Poem for Black Relocation Centers by Etheridge Knight
- A Poem For Certain Cats (for the negro soldiers) by Askia M. Touré
- A Poem for my Brother by Sonia Sanchez
- A Poem For Myself by Etheridge Knight
- A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Nikki Giovanni