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
- Listen, Lord: A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson
- Little Brown Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Little Fay's Thanksgiving by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Little Song by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Living in Colorado I Don’t Meet Any Celebrities by Khadijah Queen
- logically unconstrained of ideas; patient’s articulation by Francine J. Harris
- Lone Coast Anacrusis by Nathaniel Mackey
- Lonesome Place by Langston Hughes
- Long Distance by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Long Gone by Sterling Allen Brown
- Look by Nate Marshall
- Losing the 440-Yard Dash by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston* by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Lost Poem 4: Rx by Camonghne Felix
- Lotioning My Mother’s Back by Ama Codjoe
- Louisiana Lore by Mona Lisa Saloy
- Love by Assata Shakur
- love /luv/ by Ashley M. Jones
- Love at Auction by Marcus B. Christian
- Love in Stereo by Remica Bingham-Risher
- Love in the Weather’s Bells by Jay Wright
- Love is a Flame by George Marion McClellan
- Love Letters by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard
- Love Me by Fenton Johnson
- Love Note: Surely by Ashley M. Jones
- Love Poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Love Poem by Donika Kelly
- Love Poem #9 by Kwame Alexander
- Love Song for Alex by Margaret Walker
