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
- Through Agony by Claude McKay
- Through an Opening by Carl Phillips
- Tito Madera Smith by Tato Laviera
- To a Camellia Blossom by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- To A Clergyman On The Death Of His Lady by Phillis Wheatley
- To A Dark Moses by Lucille Clifton
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain by Phillis Wheatley
- To a Lady and Her Children by Phillis Wheatley
- To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley
- To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation by Phillis Wheatley
- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- To A Lady On The Death Of The Three Relations by Phillis Wheatley
- To A Loved One by Mary Weston Fordham
- To a Poet by Claude McKay
- To All Dark Leaders by Marcus Bruce Christian
- To Anita by Sonia Sanchez
- To Be In Love by Gwendolyn Brooks
- To Captain H-----d, of the 65th Regiment by Phillis Wheatley
- To Certain "Brothers" by Langston Hughes
- To Certain Critics by Countee Cullen
- To Change The World Enough by Alice Walker
- To Dan by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor by Phillis Wheatley
- To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time by Countee Cullen
- To Love by Raheem William Hill
- To Madame Curie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- To My Best Friend's Big Sister by Ross Gay
- To my Father by Henrietta Cordelia Ray