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
- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for the New Year by Terrance Hayes
- American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes
- Americana by Amiri Baraka
- Amnesia #1 by Quincy Troupe
- Amnesia #3: Photographs & Videos by Quincy Troupe
- Among the Berkshire Hills by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- An Anthem by Sonia Sanchez
- An Autumn Day by George Marion McClellan
- An Epitaph by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard
- An Evening by Gwendolyn Brooks
- An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon
- An Experiential And Intellectual Discourse On The N-Word by Ashley M. Jones
- An Hymn To Humanity by Phillis Wheatley
- An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley
- An Hymn To The Morning by Phillis Wheatley
- An Indignation Dinner by James David Corrothers
- Anatomy of Lust by Caroline Randall Williams
- Anchor Head by Terrance Hayes
- And The Wound Is Not For Man To See by Fenton Johnson
- And What About the Children by Audre Lorde
- Angel by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Angel of Better Days to Come by Aberjhani
- Angel of Christmas Love Shining Bright by Aberjhani
- Animal Eden by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
- Anise Swallowtail, Moulting by Francine J. Harris
- Anita and Giovanni by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- Anniversary by Lucille Clifton
- Antebellum by Gregory Pardlo
