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
- Revery by Fenton Johnson
- Reward by Kevin Young
- Riders on the Back of Silence by Cyrus Cassells
- Ritual for Rehealing by Natasha Marin
- Robeson at Rutgers by Elizabeth Alexander
- Rock Harbor by Carl Phillips
- Rock the Party, Fuck the Smackdown by Fred Moten
- Romance by Claude McKay
- Rosa Parks by Nikki Giovanni
- Rose Solitude by Jayne Cortez
- Rulers by Fenton Johnson
- Russet by Kevin Young
- Russian Cathedral by Claude McKay
- Rwanda: Where Tears Have No Power by Haki R. Madhubuti
- Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Said to Have Been Heard to Say Hush by Nathaniel Mackey
- Salutamus by Sterling Allen Brown
- Salvation, in B# by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Samaria Rice, Mother of Tamir by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- San Diego and Matisse by Clarence Major
- Sanctuary by Donika Kelly
- Sandy: Aesthetic Memory by Randall Horton
- Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen
- say it with your whole black mouth by Danez Smith
- Scabs by Marcus B. Christian
- Scarf by Rita Dove
- Sci-Fi by Tracy K. Smith
- Scottsboro Sunset by Marcus B. Christian
- Scrapple by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Sea Calm by Langston Hughes
