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
- dear white america by Danez Smith
- Death of an Old Carriage Horse by George Moses Horton
- Death Of Love by Fenton Johnson
- Deceased by Langston Hughes
- December, 1919 by Claude McKay
- Declaration by Fenton Johnson
- Dedicated to a Young Lady Representing the Indian Race at Howard University by Alfred Islay Walden
- Deeper than by Raheem William Hill
- Degraded Freeman by Marcus B. Christian
- Deism by Phillis Wheatley
- Delicious by Remica Bingham-Risher
- Delta by Margaret Walker
- Demand by Langston Hughes
- Democracy by Langston Hughes
- Denigration by Harryette Mullen
- Depression by Sonia Sanchez
- Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes
- Descant by Tyrone Williams
- Designer Kisses by Major Jackson
- Desire by Alice Walker
- Desire’s Persistence by Jay Wright
- Destiny by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Determined Invisibility by Mendi Lewis Obadike
- Detroit Conference of Unity and Art by Nikki Giovanni
- Dick by Idris Goodwin
- Did Anyone Ever Ask any One of Nikita’s Daughters by Francine J. Harris
- Differences by Danez Smith
- Dinner Guest: Me by Langston Hughes
- Dirty Deal Blues by Kevin Young
- Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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)