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
- Elegy, Father’s Day by Kevin Young
- Eliza Harris by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Emerson by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Emmett, I Said Wait by Vievee Francis
- Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Enemy by Langston Hughes
- Ennui by Langston Hughes
- Enslaved by Claude McKay
- Enter the Dragon by John Murillo
- Enter to Win by Kyla Marshell
- Ephemera by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Errançities by Quincy Troupe
- Errata by Kevin Young
- Ethiopia by Frances Ellen Watkins
- Ethiopia by Fenton Johnson
- Etymology of a Mood by Ama Codjoe
- Eulogy by Kevin Young
- Eulogy for Her by Aziza Barnes
- Eulogy On The Fairies by Fenton Johnson
- Evanescence by Angelina Weld Grimke
- Evening Lounge by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Every Hour Henceforth by Aberjhani
- Every Man A King by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Every Mourning by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Every Wish, One Dream by Jacqueline Woodson
- Exhortation: Summer 1919 by Claude McKay
- Exit by Rita Dove
- Eye on the Scarecrow by Nathaniel Mackey
- EZRA by Aziza Barnes

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)