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
- Separate, But Equal by Marcus B. Christian
- Sermon of the Dreadnaught by Gary Copeland Lilley
- Setnet by Tyrone Williams
- Shades of Blue for a Blue Bridge by Quincy Troupe
- Shafro by Terrance Hayes
- Sharing a Room by Francine J. Harris
- She by Alice Walker
- Shedding Skin by Harryette Mullen
- Ship's Manifest by Amanda Gorman
- Sho by Douglas Kearney
- Sick Room by Langston Hughes
- Sideshow by Danez Smith
- Signs of the Times by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Silence by Langston Hughes
- Silk Umbrella, Dancing Pumps by Kwoya Fagin Maples
- Simon the Cyrenian Speaks by Countee Cullen
- Sister Lou by Sterling Allen Brown
- Sisters in Arms by Audre Lorde
- Skirt Dance by Ishmael Reed
- Sky Diving by Nikki Giovanni
- Sky Picture by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- slave grammar by Nate Marshall
- Slavery by George Moses Horton
- Slavery To The Slave by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Slaveships by Lucille Clifton
- Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
- Smoke under the Bale by Vievee Francis
- Snake by Langston Hughes
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- Snow Globe by Anastacia-Reneé
