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
- Commandments by Jasmine Reid
- Commemoration by Claude McKay
- Common Miracles by Khadijah Queen
- Common Things by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Commonwealth by Tato Laviera
- 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
- Cravings by Alan King
- Creed by Anne Spencer
- Creole Mammah Turn Your Damper Down by Marcus B. Christian
- Cross by Langston Hughes
- Crows in a Strong Wind by Cornelius Eady
- Crush by Kyla Marshell
- Crwon by Danez Smith
- Cuba: A Love-Song! by Askia M. Touré
- Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture by Claude McKay
- Cultural Exchange by Langston Hughes
- Curtis by Susan King Saunders
- Custom by Carl Phillips
- Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2) by Joshua Bennett

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)