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
- Certificate of Live Birth by Jasmine Reid
- Chagrin by Alan King
- Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference by Carl Phillips
- Charlene-n-Booker 4ever by Forrest Hamer
- Charmaine by Marcus B. Christian
- Chicago high school love letters by Nate Marshall
- Childhood by Margaret Walker
- Children Of The Sun by Fenton Johnson
- Children's Rhymes by Langston Hughes
- Chocolate by Rita Dove
- Choices by Nikki Giovanni
- Chorus of the Captains by Amanda Gorman
- Circling the Daughter by Etheridge Knight
- Clarinet by Cyrus Cassells
- Climaxes & Joints by Yolanda J. Franklin
- Climbing China’s Great Wall by Afaa Michael Weaver
- Closure by Natasha Marin
- Coal by Audre Lorde
- Cocktails with Orpheus by Terrance Hayes
- Colosseum by Jericho Brown
- Come Along by Fenton Johnson
- Comfortable Corpses by Raquel Lake
- Comin’ Home by Fenton Johnson
- Commandments by Jasmine Reid
- Commemoration by Claude McKay
- Common Miracles by Khadijah Queen
- Common Things by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Commonwealth by Tato Laviera
- Confirmation by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Coniferous Fathers by Michael Kleber-Diggs
