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 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
- The Good Man by Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Gospel of Barbecue by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- The Gramsci Monument by Fred Moten
- The Gray Mare by Afaa Michael Weaver
- The Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
- The Great Pax Whitie by Nikki Giovanni
- The Hammers by Jericho Brown
- The Harlem Dancer by Claude McKay
- The Haunted Oak by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Healing Improvisation of Hair by Jay Wright
- The Health-Food Diner by Maya Angelou
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
- The Homecoming Singer by Jay Wright
- The Horse Stolen from the Camp by George Moses Horton
- The Hours Fly Quick by Quincy Troupe
- The Idea of Ancestry by Etheridge Knight
- The Increasing Frequency of Black Swans by Camille Rankine
- The Independent Man by Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Intemperance Club by George Moses Horton
- The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative by Douglas Kearney