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
- Owed to the Durag by Joshua Bennett
- Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch by Joshua Bennett
- Owed to Your Father's Gold Chain by Joshua Bennett
- P R N D by Tyrone Williams
- Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores by Askia M. Touré
- palindrome by Nate Marshall
- Palling Around by Gregory Pardlo
- Pantoum for the Broken by Toi Derricotte
- Parents Poem by Jacqueline Woodson
- Park Bench by Langston Hughes
- Park Proposal (a Choka) by Taylor Byas
- Parsley by Rita Dove
- Passing by Toi Derricotte
- Passing by Carl Phillips
- Passing Time by Maya Angelou
- Paul Laurence Dunbar by James David Corrothers
- Peace by Langston Hughes
- Perfect Form by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Perhaps the Greatest Error by Cornelius Eady
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Personal by Langston Hughes
- Personal Letter No. 3 by Sonia Sanchez
- Petition by Nikki Grimes
- Phaneric Display No. 2: The Meta by Duriel E. Harris
- Phaneric Display No. 3: Slumber Party Cabaret in E minor by Duriel E. Harris
- Phantom Punch by Alan King
- Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
- Philadelphia, Negro by Gregory Pardlo
- Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 by Cornelius Eady
- Photosynthesis by Ashley M. Jones
