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
- Truth by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Tsunami by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Turn Down The Lamp by Fenton Johnson
- Twenty-nineteen by Nagueyalti Warren
- Twerk Villanelle by Porsha Olayiwola
- Twilight Musings by Mary Weston Fordham
- Two White Girls in the African Braid Shop on Marcy and Fulton by Morgan Parker
- Ulysses by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by A. Van Jordan
- Uncle Jim by Countee Cullen
- Under A Soprano Sky by Sonia Sanchez
- Under The Days by Angelina Weld Grimké
- Under the Edge of February by Jayne Cortez
- Undo It by Carl Phillips
- Undoing by Khadijah Queen
- Unlay's Late Promenade by Nathaniel Mackey
- Unmarked Grave by Gary Copeland Lilley
- Unrest by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Until The Stars Collapse by Tonya Ingram
- Untitled by James Baldwin
- Untitled by Quincy Troupe
- Up Sun South of Alaska: A Short African American History by Quincy Troupe
- Upon Your Leaving by Etheridge Knight
- Uranne by Mary Weston Fordham
- Urban Renewal XVIII by Major Jackson
- Urgent Telegram To Jean-Michel Basquiat by Kevin Young
- Vacation by Rita Dove
- Vaccinated by Jericho Brown
- Variation On a Theme by Gil Scott-Heron by John Murillo
- Verga by Robin Coste Lewis
