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
- Personal Letter No. 3 by Sonia Sanchez
- Petition by Nikki Grimes
- Phaneric Display No. 2: The Meta by Duriel E. Harris
- Phaneric Display No. 3: Slumber Party Cabaret in E minor by Duriel E. Harris
- Phantom Punch by Alan King
- Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
- Philadelphia, Negro by Gregory Pardlo
- Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 by Cornelius Eady
- Photosynthesis by Ashley M. Jones
- Picking a Dandelion by Quincy Troupe
- picking flowers by Nate Marshall
- Pierrot by Langston Hughes
- Pink by Jasmine Reid
- Po' Boy Blues by Langston Hughes
- Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like by Nikki Giovanni
- Poem for My Father by Quincy Troupe
- Poem for the Liberation of Southern Africa by Etheridge Knight
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- Poem To My Uterus by Lucille Clifton
- poem where I be & you just might by Danez Smith
- Poetry by Claude McKay
- Poetry by Jayne Cortez
- Polarity by Claude McKay
- Postcard from Hell by Rudolph Lewis
- Postcard to Sean by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Potions by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Power by Audre Lorde
- Practicing Fade-Aways by John Murillo
- Prairie Style by C. S. Giscombe
- Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander

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)