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
- Beef by Kyla Marshell
- Beethoven by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Before Being a Mother-Artist was So Cool by Anastacia-Reneé
- Before I Leave The Stage by Alice Walker
- Before the Feast of Shushan by Anne Spencer
- Before you knew you owned it by Alice Walker
- Begin with Me by Tyree Daye
- Being Chinese by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Believe, Believe by Bob Kaufman
- Beloved by Fenton Johnson
- Benediction by Joshua Bennett
- Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City by Jay Wright
- Benjamin Banneker Sends His "Almanac" to Thomas Jefferson by Jay Wright
- Bereavement by Kevin Young
- Bête Noir by Harryette Mullen
- Between Old Trees by Francine J. Harris
- Beverly Hills, Chicago by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Beyoncé in Third Person by Morgan Parker
- Beyond The Veil by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Beyond Words by Kevin Young
- bible times by Jacqueline Woodson
- Big Girls Can Handle Absence by Rudolph Lewis
- Big John Henry by Margaret Walker
- Bike Riding Sunday by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
- Birds of Prey by Claude McKay
- Birthday Poem by Etheridge Knight
- Black Boys Play the Classics by Toi Derricotte
- Black Cat Blues by Kevin Young
- Black Flight by Douglas Kearney
- Black Love by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
