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
- latero story by Tato Laviera
- Launcelot's Defiance by Fenton Johnson
- Lazarus Minor by Duriel E. Harris
- Lazy Love Song by Patricia Smith
- Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne) by James Baldwin
- Leaves by Nikki Giovanni
- Leaves by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Leda, After The Swan by Carl Phillips
- Left by Nikky Finney
- Legacies by Nikki Giovanni
- Legacy by Amiri Baraka
- Lesson by Forrest Hamer
- Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
- Let There Be New Flowering by Lucille Clifton
- Letter to my Sister by Anne Spencer
- Liberty by George Moses Horton
- Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Life-long, Poor Browning by Anne Spencer
- Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
- Lift Every Voice and Sing by Jacqueline Woodson
- Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy by Terrance Hayes
- Lighthouse by Amanda Gorman
- Lightnin’ Blues by Rita Dove
- Like Jesus to the Crows by Vievee Francis
- Lincoln by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Lincoln is Dead by George Moses Horton
- Lincoln Monument: Washington by Langston Hughes
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Lines to a Nasturtium by Anne Spencer
- Lines to the Memory of D. Powell of the A. M. A. by George Marion McClellan
