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
- 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 Bright Chimeric Beast by Countee Cullen
- That's What That Is by Patricia Smith
- The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar by Danez Smith
- The 70s–UltraSuede by C. S. Giscombe
- The Ability to Be by Mahogany L. Browne
- The African by Marcus B. Christian
- The African Origins of Civilization by Askia M. Touré
- The Afterbirth, 1931 by Nikky Finney
- The American Cancer Society Or There Is More Than One Way to Skin a Coon by Audre Lorde
