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
- Invocation by Helene Johnson
- Invocation to the Muse by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Irony by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Irritable Mystic by Nathaniel Mackey
- Is it because you don't trust anyone, or they can misconstrue your words ? by Kyla Marshell
- Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors by Carl Phillips
- Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow) by Cyrus Cassells
- Is Truth Liberating? by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Isabell* by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- Islands by Yusef Komunyakaa
- It Fell, The Giant Oak by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- It May Happen by G.E. Patterson
- It Takes by Francine J. Harris
- It’s not that I want to say by Fred Moten
- I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again by Vievee Francis
- Jacket Notes by Ishmael Reed
- Jail Poems by Bob Kaufman
- Jamie's Puzzle by Frances Ellen Watkins
- Jasmines by Claude McKay
- Jazz Fan Looks Back by Jayne Cortez
- Jazzonia by Langston Hughes
- Jeanne Moreau by Fred Moten
- Jessie Mitchell's Mother by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Jim Trueblood: Father of the Year by Douglas Kearney
- Jokes on You by Rohan Dunbar
- Josh Bell by Kwame Alexander
- Journey to the Place of Ghosts by Jay Wright
- Jubal’s Free by Fenton Johnson
- Juke Box Love Song by Langston Hughes
