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
- All You Gotta Do Is Listen by Randall Horton
- All Y’All Really From Alabama by Ashley M. Jones
- Allegory by Gregory Pardlo
- alleyway by Aziza Barnes
- Allowables by Nikki Giovanni
- Almost Like They Wanted It by Camille T. Dungy
- Alone by Fenton Johnson
- Alpha Zulu by Gary Copeland Lilley
- alternate names for black boys by Danez Smith
- Altitude by Cyrus Cassells
- Always in Love the First Time by Rudolph Lewis
- Amen by James Baldwin
- America by Phillis Wheatley
- America by Claude McKay
- America is Loving Me to Death by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- America Will Be by Joshua Bennett
- AmeRícan by Tato Laviera
- american dream by Jacqueline Woodson
- American Income by Afaa Michael Weaver
- American Light by Claudia Rankine
- American Smooth by Rita Dove
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for the New Year by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes
- Amnesia #1 by Quincy Troupe
- Amnesia #3: Photographs & Videos by Quincy Troupe
- Among the Berkshire Hills by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- An Anthem by Sonia Sanchez
- An Autumn Day by George Marion McClellan

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)