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
- Allowables by Nikki Giovanni
- Alone by Fenton Johnson
- alternate names for black boys by Danez Smith
- Altitude by Cyrus Cassells
- Always in Love the First Time by Rudolph Lewis
- Amen by James Baldwin
- America by Phillis Wheatley
- America by Claude McKay
- America is Loving Me to Death by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- AmeRícan by Tato Laviera
- american dream by Jacqueline Woodson
- American Income by Afaa Michael Weaver
- American Smooth by Rita Dove
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for the New Year by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes
- Amnesia #1 by Quincy Troupe
- Amnesia #3: Photographs & Videos by Quincy Troupe
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- An Evening by Gwendolyn Brooks
- An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon
- An Experiential And Intellectual Discourse On The N-Word by Ashley M. Jones
- An Hymn To Humanity by Phillis Wheatley
- An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley
- An Hymn To The Morning by Phillis Wheatley
- Anchor Head by Terrance Hayes
- And The Wound Is Not For Man To See by Fenton Johnson
- And What About the Children by Audre Lorde
- Angel by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Angel of Better Days to Come by Aberjhani
