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
- Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy by Tiana Clark
- Brother by Toi Derricotte
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Brown Lorrelei by Marcus B. Christian
- Bullet Points by Jericho Brown
- Burden, old story. by Francine J. Harris
- Buried by Patricia Smith
- Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins
- Busking by Kevin Young
- Bussy Blues by Danez Smith
- Butter by Elizabeth Alexander
- By the Rivers of Babylon by Mary Weston Fordham
- Cadillac Moon by Kevin Young
- Call Us by Amanda Gorman
- Can We Touch Your Hair? by Skye Jackson
- Can You Tell Me? by Fenton Johnson
- Canada's Welcome by Helene Johnson
- Canal Street at Noon by Marcus B. Christian
- Cant by Tyrone Williams
- Cat Weather by Marcus B. Christian
- Catch by Langston Hughes
- Catch the Fire by Sonia Sanchez
- Cattails by Nikky Finney
- Cellular RNA (tUCAG) by Tyrone Williams
- Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Certificate of Live Birth by Jasmine Reid
- Chagrin by Alan King
- Challenge by Sterling Allen Brown
- Change-Up by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference by Carl Phillips
