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
- Open by Mendi Lewis Obadike
- Opera Singer by Ross Gay
- Oppression by Langston Hughes
- Oregon Boogie by Major Jackson
- Oregon Trail, Missouri by Francine J. Harris
- Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth by Askia M. Touré
- Other Women’s Children by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- Our Task by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Outcast by Claude McKay
- Owed to Ankle Weights by Joshua Bennett
- Owed to the Durag by Joshua Bennett
- Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch by Joshua Bennett
- Owed to Your Father's Gold Chain by Joshua Bennett
- P R N D by Tyrone Williams
- Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores by Askia M. Touré
- palindrome by Nate Marshall
- Palling Around by Gregory Pardlo
- Pantoum for the Broken by Toi Derricotte
- Parents Poem by Jacqueline Woodson
- Park Bench by Langston Hughes
- Parsley by Rita Dove
- Passing by Carl Phillips
- Passing by Toi Derricotte
- Passing Time by Maya Angelou
- Paul Laurence Dunbar by James David Corrothers
- Peace by Langston Hughes
- Perfect Form by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Perhaps the Greatest Error by Cornelius Eady
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Personal by Langston Hughes
