Here you will find African American poets such as Rita Dove, Claude McKay, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes and other Famous and Contemporary Black Poets.

Maya Angelou (18) (1928 - present)	Ai (1) (1947 - 2010)
Gwendolyn Brooks (13) (1917 - 2000)	Imamu Amiri Baraka (1) (1934 - present)
Arna Bontemps (7) (1902 - 1973)	Lucille Clifton (2) (1936 - 2010)
Countee Cullen (15) (1903 - 1946)	Paul Laurence Dunbar (38) (1872 - 1906)
Rita Dove (2) (1952 - present)	Cornelius Eady (1) (1954 - present)
James A. Emanuel (21) (1921 - present)	Jessie Redmon Fauset (1) (1882 - 1961)
Nikki Giovanni (1) (1943 - present)	Langston Hughes (29) (1902 - 1967)
Robert Hayden (12) (1913 - 1980)	Forrest Hamer (4) (1956 - present)
Jupiter Hammon (1) (1711 - 1806)	Yusef Komunyakaa (3) (1947 - present)
Etheridge Knight (7) (1931 - 1991)	Audre Lorde (8) (1934 - 1992)
Claude McKay (76) (1889 - 1948)	Wanda Phipps (8) (1960 - present)
Natasha Trethewey (3) (1966 - present)	Quincy Troupe (3) (1939 - present)
Alice Walker (1) (1944 - present)	Phillis Wheatley (41) (1753 - 1784)
James Weldon Johnson (4) (1871 - 1938)

Copyright © 2006 - 2010 Famous Poets And Poems . com. All Rights Reserved.
The Poems and Quotes on this site are the property of their respective authors. All information has been
reproduced here for educational and informational purposes.