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
- Prayer Meeting by Kwoya Fagin Maples
- Prayer of the Backhanded by Jericho Brown
- Prayer of the Jaguar by Roger Reeves
- Prelude by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Pride in Heaven by George Moses Horton
- Primer by Rita Dove
- Primordial Mirror by Ama Codjoe
- Principles by Danez Smith
- Prisoners by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Prize Fighter by Langston Hughes
- Problema 1 by Gregory Pardlo
- Problema 4 by Gregory Pardlo
- Problemata by Gregory Pardlo
- Problems by Langston Hughes
- Prodigal Daughter by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Purification: Wolf Moon by Khadijah Queen
- Push Back the Catastrophes by Jayne Cortez
- Puttin' On The Dog by Everett Hoagland
- Quality: Gwendolyn Brooks at 73 by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Que Sera Sera by A. Van Jordan
- Questing by Anne Spencer
- Question [1] by Langston Hughes
- Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes
- Quilt by Nikki Giovanni
- Race by Elizabeth Alexander
- Radiance versus Ordinary Light by Carl Phillips
- Rainy Day by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Raisin by Gregory Pardlo
- Rally Song by Mary Weston Fordham
- Rambling by Afaa Michael Weaver

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)