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
- The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Tracy K. Smith
- The Unlucky Apple by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Vacant Lot by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- The Valentine by Mary Weston Fordham
- the valley of its making by Nate Marshall
- The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander
- The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money) by Etheridge Knight
- The Washerwoman by Mary Weston Fordham
- The Weakness by Toi Derricotte
- The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
- The West Indian Day Parade by Quincy Troupe
- The White City by Claude McKay
- The White House by Claude McKay
- The Wife-Woman by Anne Spencer
- The Wild Goat by Claude McKay
- The Wise by Countee Cullen
- The Woman in Black by W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Woodman and the Money Hunter by George Moses Horton
- The world says not to expect the world by Khadijah Queen
- The World That the Shooter Left Us by Cyrus Cassells
- The Wound by Shimera D. Samuels
- Thelonious by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Theme For English B by Langston Hughes
- Then, A Longing by Camonghne Felix
- Theology by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- There Came a Soul by Rita Dove
- There is Religious Tattooing by Fred Moten
- There It Is by Jayne Cortez
- These Are Days . . . by Mona Lisa Saloy
- These New York City Pigeons by Jayne Cortez
