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
- Of Robert Frost by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Offering by Donika Kelly
- Old by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Old Boy by A. Van Jordan
- old confession & new by Danez Smith
- On a Night of the Full Moon by Audre Lorde
- On a Primitive Canoe by Claude McKay
- On a Sunday by Quincy Troupe
- On Aging by Maya Angelou
- On Antiphon Island by Nathaniel Mackey
- On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
- On Being Free by Anastacia-Reneé
- On Blueness by Joshua Bennett
- On Broadway by Claude McKay
- On Confessionalism by John Murillo
- On Disappearing by Major Jackson
- On Earth, I is, Will Be, Me by Jasmine Reid
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- On getting through it by Toni Bee
- On Hearing 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair' by Nikki Giovanni
- On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley
- On Liberty and Slavery by George Moses Horton
- On Magical Realism by John Murillo
- On Messrs Hussey and Coffin by Phillis Wheatley
- On Metaphor by John Murillo
- On Negative Capability by John Murillo
- On Paper by Jacqueline Woodson
- On Quiet Feet by Nikki Grimes
- On Recollection by Phillis Wheatley
- On Removing the Wedding Band by Major Jackson
