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
- Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive by Ashley M. Jones
- Summit by Jayne Cortez
- Summit And Vale by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Sunday Mornin’Christians by Anthony J. Mungin
- Superfluities by Major Jackson
- Survival: A Chant by Askia M. Touré
- Susi and Chuma by Marcus B. Christian
- sweet breath by Nate Marshall
- Sylvester's Dying Bed by Langston Hughes
- Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Symptoms of Prophecy by Camille Rankine
- Tableau by Countee Cullen
- Taboo by Anne Spencer
- Take Me Out to the Go-Go by Thomas Sayers Ellis
- Taking It by Vievee Francis
- Talking About New Orleans by Jayne Cortez
- Tamara's Opus by Joshua Bennett
- Tanka by Sonia Sanchez
- Taphophobia by Francine J. Harris
- TB by Tyrone Williams
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
- Teacher’s Aide by Joshua Bennett
- Ted Joans at the Café Bizarre by Harryette Mullen
- telling stories by Nate Marshall
- Ten Years After Umbra by Tom Dent
- Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimke
- Terence MacSwiney by Anne Spencer
- Thanks by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Thanksgiving Time by Langston Hughes
- That Better 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)