African American Poems | Best Poems

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
- You! Inez! by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Young Afrikans by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
- Your Soul and Mine by Fenton Johnson
- Zen Acorn by Harryette Mullen
- ZoSo by Gregory Pardlo
- [but who’s going to pick me up?] by Jalynn Harris
- [how would I know the difference?] by Jalynn Harris
- [lady in brown] "de library waz right down from de trolly tracks" by Ntozake Shange
- [lady in red] “there was no air / the sheets made ripples under his” by Ntozake Shange
- [THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES] by Bob Kaufman
- __________ my loved blacknesses & some blacknesses I knew by Khadijah Queen
- …play some Luther by Alan King

Robert Frost
was an American poet. (March 26, 1874 – Jan. 29, 1963)
Maya Angelou
was an African-American poet. (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)
Pablo Neruda
Nobel prize chilean poet. (July 12, 1904 – Sept. 23, 1973)
Rabindranath Tagore
was an indian famous poet (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941)
Thomas. S. Eliot
was an English poet and critic. (Sept. 26, 1888 – Jan. 4, 1965)