COUNTEE CULLEN has been treated by reviewers of the last twenty years in ways he certainly could not control and probably did not invite. In their eagerness to find a poet who could express the ...
One of the Harlem Renaissance’s most important poet’s meteoric rise to fame was followed by a long an series of disappointments. A fast starter and an early finisher: Like many another Wunderkind, ...
Has it been a year already!? Just twelve months ago we celebrated Gay History Month – and, like clockwork, it’s that time again! For our first installment of this month-long look back, let’s shine ...
Her name is Pe’Tehn Raighn-Kem and in case you missed it, she’s a three-year-old who recited Countee Cullen’s “Hey Black Child” so adorably amazing, we can’t help but share! It only took Pe’Tehn a ...
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1928 marriage of activist/publisher W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter, Yolande Du Bois, to prominent poet Countee Cullen was more than a celebrity wedding. It was a ...
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he ...
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Countée Cullen was 21 years old when he sent a manuscript of poems to the older writer Witter Bynner in 1924. The verse was precocious, heavily influenced by English poets of earlier centuries, but ...
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