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
- Cravings by Alan King
- Creed by Anne Spencer
- Creole Mammah Turn Your Damper Down by Marcus B. Christian
- Cross by Langston Hughes
- Crows in a Strong Wind by Cornelius Eady
- Crush by Kyla Marshell
- Crwon by Danez Smith
- Cuba: A Love-Song! by Askia M. Touré
- Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture by Claude McKay
- Cultural Exchange by Langston Hughes
- Curtis by Susan King Saunders
- Custom by Carl Phillips
- Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2) by Joshua Bennett
- Dad Poem X by Joshua Bennett
- Dancing by Sonia Sanchez
- Dancing with Strom by Nikky Finney
- Danse Africaine by Langston Hughes
- Dark Blood by Margaret Walker
- Dark Heritage by Marcus B. Christian
- Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine by Etheridge Knight
- Dawn in New York by Claude McKay
- Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
- Day After Day of the Dead by Nathaniel Mackey
- Daybreak In Alabama by Langston Hughes
- Daystar by Rita Dove
- De Call by Fenton Johnson
- De Nigger's Got to Go by Daniel Webster Davis
- Dear America by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Dear Dr. Frankenstein by Jericho Brown
- Dear Insecurity by Rohan Dunbar

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)