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
- Woofer (When I Consider the African-American) by Terrance Hayes
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Words that Build Bridges Toward a New Tongue by Quincy Troupe
- Wordsworth by Charlotte Forten Grimké
- Working Class Hero by Alice Walker
- Workshop on Racism by Toi Derricotte
- Would You Ever Hold The Night? by Unknown
- Written By H'Self by Tyrone Williams
- Written by Himself by Gregory Pardlo
- Wynton by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen
- You And Your Whole Race by Langston Hughes
- You Are So Articulate With Your Hands by Joshua Bennett
- You Are Who I Love by Aracelis Girmay
- You Can Do It by Jabari Asim
- You Still Dream by Nikki Grimes
- You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- You! Inez! by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Young Afrikans by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Your Soul and Mine by Fenton Johnson
- Zen Acorn by Harryette Mullen
- ZoSo by Gregory Pardlo
- [but who’s going to pick me up?] by Jalynn Harris
- [how would I know the difference?] by Jalynn Harris
- [lady in brown] "de library waz right down from de trolly tracks" by Ntozake Shange
- [lady in red] “there was no air / the sheets made ripples under his” by Ntozake Shange
- [THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES] by Bob Kaufman
- __________ my loved blacknesses & some blacknesses I knew by Khadijah Queen
- …play some Luther by Alan King
