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
- Dyer Died In Silence by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
- E Pluribus Unum by Camille Rankine
- Early Buildings and Settlers by Tyrone Williams
- Early Cinema by Elizabeth Alexander
- Earth, I Thank You by Anne Spencer
- Earthquake Blues by Ishmael Reed
- Earthrise by Amanda Gorman
- Easter Carol by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Easter Shoes by Cornelius Eady
- Easy Boogie by Langston Hughes
- Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary by Kevin Young
- Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni
- Ego-Tripp(ed) by Mahogany L. Browne
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity by A. Van Jordan
- El Dorado by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Elegy by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Elegy, Father’s Day by Kevin Young
- Eliza Harris by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Emerson by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Emmett, I Said Wait by Vievee Francis
- Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Enemy by Langston Hughes
- Ennui by Langston Hughes
- Enslaved by Claude McKay
- Enter the Dragon by John Murillo
- Enter to Win by Kyla Marshell
- Ephemera by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Epithalamium by Anthony Walton

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)