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
- Black man not Swiss by Raheem William Hill
- Black Man o' Mine by Anne Spencer
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
- Black Men by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Black, Poured Directly into the Wound by Patricia Smith
- BlackBerry Speaks/Txts by Alan King
- BLACKLUCYNEGRO I by Caroline Randall Williams
- Blackwoman by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Blah-Blah by Harryette Mullen
- Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit by Alice Walker
- Blind Tom Plays for Confederate Troops, 1863 by Tyehimba Jess
- Blind Tom, Singing by James David Corrothers
- BLK History Month by Nikki Giovanni
- Bloodbirth by Audre Lorde
- Blueprint for Leaving a Black Man by Yolanda J. Franklin
- Blues by Sonia Sanchez
- Blues by Elizabeth Alexander
- Blues: Odysseus by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Boat Song by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Booker T. and W.E.B. by Dudley Randall
- Born under Punches by Major Jackson
- Boston Year by Elizabeth Alexander
- Bottled by Helene Johnson
- Bound No'th Blues by Langston Hughes
- Bouquet by Langston Hughes
- Bowillie and the Lady Reporter by Ahmos Zu-Bolton
- Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Brass Spittoons by Langston Hughes
- Broken by Raheem William Hill
- Broken Ghazal for Walter Scott by Tiana Clark

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)