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
- Very Recent Past by C. S. Giscombe
- Vestiges by A. Van Jordan
- Victims of the Latest Dance Craze by Cornelius Eady
- Violence, I Know You by Khadijah Queen
- Visitation in Carolina by Ama Codjoe
- Vitiligo Blues by Caroline Randall Williams
- Voices of the Dusk by Fenton Johnson
- Vote by Nikki Giovanni
- Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
- Wah Wah by Tyrone Williams
- Wake by Langston Hughes
- Walk On, Walk Away by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Walk with Me by Clement Suze
- Walkers With The Dawn by Langston Hughes
- Walking Down Park by Nikki Giovanni
- Walking Parker Home by Bob Kaufman
- Wanda Jean Allen by Fred Moten
- Wanderer's Return by Frances Ellen Watkins
- Warning by Fenton Johnson
- Warning by Langston Hughes
- Washing the Car with my Father by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Watch me Dance and Make Music Sing by Anthony J. Mungin
- Watching a Woman on the M101 Express by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Water by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Way Opposite by Harryette Mullen
- Ways to Disappear by Camille Rankine
- We by Camille Rankine
- We Are Not Responsible by Harryette Mullen
- We Be by Dr. Christopher Davis
- We Do Not Know Her Name by L. Lamar Wilson

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)