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
- I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith
- I'm Really not Lazy by Arnold Spilka
- I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
- If I Could But Forget by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- If I Was a Love Poet by Rudy Francisco
- If I Was President by Alice Walker
- If It's Magic by Remica Bingham-Risher
- If We Must Die by Claude McKay
- If You Are Over Staying Woke by Morgan Parker
- If You Tell by Afaa Michael Weaver
- If You Tell It Backward by Porsha Olayiwola
- If You Were A Couplet, I’d Rhyme You by Kwame Alexander
- Imagine by Nate Marshall
- Imagine by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Imagine Sisyphus Happy by Nicole Sealey
- Imploring to Be Resigned at Death by George Moses Horton
- In A Border Town by Afaa Michael Weaver
- In an Effort to Translate Solitude by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
- In Bondage by Claude McKay
- in broad dayliGht black descendants look gall by Roya Marsh
- In Critique of Black Female Demonization, Not Miscegenation by Ashley M. Jones
- In Defense of Henry Box Brown by Joshua Bennett
- In Dreams You Live by Jeffery Massey, Sr. aka "Poor Richard's Son"
- In Florida by Charlotte Forten Grimké
- In God's Gardens by W. E. B. Du Bois
- In Harlem by Marcus B. Christian
- In Memoriam Frederick Douglass by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- In Night of The Iguana by Clarence Major
- In Over My Head by Jeffery Massey, Sr. aka "Poor Richard's Son"
- In Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe by Quincy Troupe
