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
- Harold’s Chicken Shack #86 by Nate Marshall
- Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television by Ashley M. Jones
- He Never Had It Made by Nikky Finney
- He Said by Anne Spencer
- Healing by Natasha Marin
- Heart Condition by Jericho Brown
- Heart To Heart by Rita Dove
- Heartbreak Hotel by Rudolph Lewis
- hecky naw by Nate Marshall
- Heirloom by Nikky Finney
- Helen Keller by Langston Hughes
- Helpless by Idiong Divine
- Here All Alone by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Heretofore Unuttered by Nicole Sealey
- Here’s an Ocean Tale by Kwoya Fagin Maples
- Heritage by Claude McKay
- Heritage by Countee Cullen
- Herman Finley by Jericho Brown
- Hesitation Step by G.E. Patterson
- High Noon by Alan King
- His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
- History by Amiri Baraka
- History by Camille Rankine
- Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War by Aberjhani
- Home Thoughts by Claude McKay
- Homecoming by Jay Wright
- Homing Swallows by Claude McKay
- Hope by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Horn by Alan King
- Horror Vacui by Camille Rankine

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)