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 Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- The Tree Of Life Has Fallen by Alice Walker
- The Triple Benison by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- The Triumph of Song by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- The Tropics in New York by Claude McKay
- The Two Elizas, 2009 by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- The Union of Parties by George Moses Horton
- The United States Welcomes You by Tracy K. Smith
- The Universe as Primal Scream by Tracy K. Smith
- The Universe is a House Party by Tracy K. Smith
- The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Tracy K. Smith
- The Unlucky Apple by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Vacant Lot by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- The Valentine by Mary Weston Fordham
- the valley of its making by Nate Marshall
- The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander
- The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money) by Etheridge Knight
- The Washerwoman by Mary Weston Fordham
- The Weakness by Toi Derricotte
- The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
- The West Indian Day Parade by Quincy Troupe
- The White City by Claude McKay
- The White House by Claude McKay
- The Wife-Woman by Anne Spencer
- The Wild Goat by Claude McKay
- The Wise by Countee Cullen
- The Woman in Black by W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Woodman and the Money Hunter by George Moses Horton
- The world says not to expect the world by Khadijah Queen
- The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells