African American Poems | Best Poems

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
- Climate Change by Rudy Francisco
- Climaxes & Joints by Yolanda J. Franklin
- Climbing China’s Great Wall by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Closure by Natasha Marin
- Coal by Audre Lorde
- Cocktails with Orpheus by Terrance Hayes
- Coherence in Consequence by Claudia Rankine
- Colosseum by Jericho Brown
- Come Along by Fenton Johnson
- Come. And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou
- Comfortable Corpses by Raquel Lake
- Comin’ Home by Fenton Johnson
- Commandments by Jasmine Reid
- Commemoration by Claude McKay
- Common Miracles by Khadijah Queen
- Common Things by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Commonwealth by Tato Laviera
- Complainers by Rudy Francisco
- Confirmation by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Coniferous Fathers by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Consider the Hands that Write this Letter by Aracelis Girmay
- Conversation by Ai
- Conversation in Isolation by Harryette Mullen
- Conversation With Baldwin by Anastacia-Reneé
- Coping by Audre Lorde
- Cora by Fenton Johnson
- Coretta by Nagueyalti Warren
- Corrective Lenses: Creative Reading and (Recon)textual/ization by Gregory Pardlo
- Courage by Claude McKay
- Courage Song for Scott Warren by Cyrus Cassells

Robert Frost
was an American poet. (March 26, 1874 – Jan. 29, 1963)
Maya Angelou
was an African-American poet. (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)
Pablo Neruda
Nobel prize chilean poet. (July 12, 1904 – Sept. 23, 1973)
Rabindranath Tagore
was an indian famous poet (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941)
Thomas. S. Eliot
was an English poet and critic. (Sept. 26, 1888 – Jan. 4, 1965)