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
- The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974 by Quincy Troupe
- The Day-Breakers by Arna Bontemps
- The Death Penalty by Afaa Michael Weaver
- The Debt by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Distant Past–B.W.I. by C. S. Giscombe
- The Dream by Aracelis Girmay
- The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
- The Drunkard's Child by Frances Ellen Watkins
- The Dry Spell by Kevin Young
- The Easter Flower by Claude McKay
- The Egg Boiler by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- The Electric Slide Boogie by Audre Lorde
- The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man! by Porsha Olayiwola
- The Elephant and Her Medicine: On Being Home In My Body by Jalynn Harris
- The Emperor’s Deer by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- The Empty Dance Shoes by Cornelius Eady
- The End of an Ethnic Dream by Jay Wright
- The Eyes Of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimke
- The Fat of the Fog Hovers Over by Francine J. Harris
- The Fate of an Innocent Dog by George Moses Horton
- The Fearful Traveller in the Haunted Castle by George Moses Horton
- The Flash Reverses Time by A. Van Jordan
- The Frequency of Goodnight by Tiana Clark
- The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni
- The Gathering of the Grand Army by Charlotte L. Forten Grimke
- the ghosts of the nelsonville house by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Girlfriend's Train by Nikky Finney
- The giver (for Berdis) by James Baldwin
- The Golden Shovel by Terrance Hayes
- The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith
