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
- Motto by Langston Hughes
- Movement Song by Audre Lorde
- Moving Toward the Open, the Light by Quincy Troupe
- Mr. On-Time by Alan King
- Mulatto by Langston Hughes
- Mulberry Fields by Lucille Clifton
- Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.) by James Baldwin
- Muscular Fantasy by Terrance Hayes
- Muse and Drudge by Harryette Mullen
- Muse, a Lady Cautioning by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Music That Heals by Rudolph Lewis
- Musidora's Vision by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- My Brothers by Haki R. Madhubuti
- My Childhood's Happy Days by Daniel Webster Davis
- My Country ’Tis of Thee by W. E. B. Du Bois
- my deepest & most ashamed apologies to Assotto Saint by Danez Smith
- My Dream about Being White by Lucille Clifton
- My Dream about the Second Coming by Lucille Clifton
- My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell by Gwendolyn Brooks
- My Father's Geography by Afaa Michael Weaver
- My Father's Love Letters by Yusef Komunyakaa
- My God, It's Full of Stars by Tracy K. Smith
- My Graduation Speech by Tato Laviera
- My Honest Poem by Rudy Francisco
- My Little March Girl by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- My Lover Says by Therí A. Pickens
- My Lover Who Lives Far by Camille T. Dungy
- My Madonna by George Marion McClellan
- My Mother by Claude McKay
- My Mother and Grace by Jacqueline Woodson

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)