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
- Lesson by Forrest Hamer
- Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
- Let There Be New Flowering by Lucille Clifton
- Letter to my Sister by Anne Spencer
- Liberty by George Moses Horton
- Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Life-long, Poor Browning by Anne Spencer
- Lift Every Voice and Sing by Jacqueline Woodson
- Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
- Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy by Terrance Hayes
- Lightnin’ Blues by Rita Dove
- Like Jesus to the Crows by Vievee Francis
- Lincoln by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Lincoln is Dead by George Moses Horton
- Lincoln Monument: Washington by Langston Hughes
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Lines to a Nasturtium by Anne Spencer
- Listen, Lord: A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson
- Little Brown Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Little Fay's Thanksgiving by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Little Song by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Living in Colorado I Don’t Meet Any Celebrities by Khadijah Queen
- logically unconstrained of ideas; patient’s articulation by Francine J. Harris
- Lone Coast Anacrusis by Nathaniel Mackey
- Lonesome Place by Langston Hughes
- Long Distance by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Long Gone by Sterling Allen Brown
- Look by Nate Marshall
- Losing the 440-Yard Dash by Afaa Michael Weaver

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)