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
- Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston* by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Lost Poem 4: Rx by Camonghne Felix
- Lotioning My Mother’s Back by Ama Codjoe
- Louisiana Lore by Mona Lisa Saloy
- love /luv/ by Ashley M. Jones
- Love at Auction by Marcus B. Christian
- Love in Stereo by Remica Bingham-Risher
- Love in the Weather’s Bells by Jay Wright
- Love is a Flame by George Marion McClellan
- Love Letters by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard
- Love Me by Fenton Johnson
- Love Note: Surely by Ashley M. Jones
- Love Poem by Donika Kelly
- Love Poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Love Poem #9 by Kwame Alexander
- Love Song for Alex by Margaret Walker
- Love Song for Lucinda by Langston Hughes
- Love's Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Love's Good-Night by Fenton Johnson
- Love's Mystic Tide by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Love, I'm Done with You by Ross Gay
- Lucent by Amanda Gorman
- Lucille's Roaches by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Ludwig Von Beethoven's Return To Vienna by Rita Dove
- Luna Moth by Carl Phillips
- Lunar Eclipse by Ed Roberson
- Lush Life by Morgan Parker
- Lustrum by Carl Phillips
- Lymphoma by Kamaria Muntu
- Lyrics of Love by Fenton Johnson

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)