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
- To Madame Curie by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- To My Best Friend's Big Sister by Ross Gay
- To my Father by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
- To My Last Period by Lucille Clifton
- To Mæcenas by Phillis Wheatley
- To O.E.A. by Claude McKay
- To One Coming North by Claude McKay
- To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
- To the Collective (We): What, If? by Randall Horton
- To The Diaspora by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter by Phillis Wheatley
- To The King Of Macedonia by George Moses Horton
- To The King's Most Excellent Majesty by Phillis Wheatley
- To the Negro Farmers of the United States by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- To the Pale Poets by Ray Durem
- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory by Phillis Wheatley
- To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary Of The State For North-America, by Phillis Wheatley
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- To Théma, Almost Two Years after Your Burial by Kamilah Aisha Moon
- To Winter by Claude McKay
- Tobacco by Jacqueline Woodson
- Today's News by Elizabeth Alexander
- Togetherness by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Tonight, in Oakland by Danez Smith
- Tonk and waterfront, black line fade, unbuilt hotel, that union hall by Fred Moten
- Tonsure by Kevin Young
- Tormented by Claude McKay
