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
- Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine by Etheridge Knight
- Dawn in New York by Claude McKay
- Daybreak In Alabama by Langston Hughes
- Dear Insecurity by Rohan Dunbar
- Deceased by Langston Hughes
- December, 1919 by Claude McKay
- Deeper than by Raheem William Hill
- Deism by Phillis Wheatley
- Delta by Margaret Walker
- Demand by Langston Hughes
- Democracy by Langston Hughes
- Desire by Alice Walker
- Dinner Guest: Me by Langston Hughes
- Distinction by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Don’t Be Like Those Who Ask For Everything by Alice Walker
- Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Dream Boogie by Langston Hughes
- Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
- Dreams by Langston Hughes
- Early Cinema by Elizabeth Alexander
- Easy Boogie by Langston Hughes
- Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Enemy by Langston Hughes
- Ennui by Langston Hughes
- Enslaved by Claude McKay
- Evanescence by Angelina Weld Grimke
- Every Hour Henceforth by Aberjhani
- Exhortation: Summer 1919 by Claude McKay
- Feeling Fucked Up by Etheridge Knight

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)