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
- Uncle Jim by Countee Cullen
- Under A Soprano Sky by Sonia Sanchez
- Under The Days by Angelina Weld Grimké
- Under the Edge of February by Jayne Cortez
- Undo It by Carl Phillips
- Undoing by Khadijah Queen
- Undulating Contours by Clarence Major
- Unlay's Late Promenade by Nathaniel Mackey
- Unmarked Grave by Gary Copeland Lilley
- Unrest by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Until The Stars Collapse by Tonya Ingram
- Untitled by Quincy Troupe
- Untitled by James Baldwin
- Up Sun South of Alaska: A Short African American History by Quincy Troupe
- Upon Your Leaving by Etheridge Knight
- Uranne by Mary Weston Fordham
- Urban Renewal XVIII by Major Jackson
- Urgent Telegram To Jean-Michel Basquiat by Kevin Young
- Vacation by Rita Dove
- Vaccinated by Jericho Brown
- Vantage Point by Clarence Major
- Variation On a Theme by Gil Scott-Heron by John Murillo
- Verga by Robin Coste Lewis
- Very Recent Past by C. S. Giscombe
- Vestiges by A. Van Jordan
- Victims of the Latest Dance Craze by Cornelius Eady
- Violence, I Know You by Khadijah Queen
- Visitation in Carolina by Ama Codjoe
- Vitiligo Blues by Caroline Randall Williams
- Voices of the Dusk by Fenton Johnson
