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
- I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- I Started Praying for You by Tiana Clark
- I Told You by Gary Copeland Lilley
- I Wanna Be Ur Lover by Douglas Kearney
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- I'll Brush Your Hair, Put Your Du-Rag On by Danez Smith
- I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady
- I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith
- I'm Really not Lazy by Arnold Spilka
- I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
- If I Could But Forget by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- If I Was President by Alice Walker
- If It's Magic by Remica Bingham-Risher
- If We Must Die by Claude McKay
- If You Are Over Staying Woke by Morgan Parker
- If You Tell by Afaa Michael Weaver
- If You Tell It Backward by Porsha Olayiwola
- If You Were A Couplet, I’d Rhyme You by Kwame Alexander
- Imagine by Nate Marshall
- Imagine by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Imagine Sisyphus Happy by Nicole Sealey
- Imploring to Be Resigned at Death by George Moses Horton
- In A Border Town by Afaa Michael Weaver
- In an Effort to Translate Solitude by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
- In Bondage by Claude McKay
- in broad dayliGht black descendants look gall by Roya Marsh
- In Critique of Black Female Demonization, Not Miscegenation by Ashley M. Jones
- In Defense of Henry Box Brown by Joshua Bennett
- In Dreams You Live by Jeffery Massey, Sr. aka "Poor Richard's Son"
- In Florida by Charlotte Forten Grimké
