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
- The Coora Flower by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- The Cradle Logic of Autumn by Jay Wright
- The Craftsman by Marcus B. Christian
- The Crazy Woman by Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
- The Crucifixion by Mary Weston Fordham
- The Current Isolationism by Camille Rankine
- The Dancers by Charles Morgan
- The Dawn of Love by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- 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

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)