The Harvard Crimson

COUNTEE CULLEN 1G. WINS BYNNER'S POETRY AWARD

Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Graduate Student Blossoms Into Poet With New Volume of Verse--Cullen Has Already Won Poetry Prize

In Countee P. Cullen 1G., Harvard has its second full-fledged student poet. Yesterday a volume of Cullen's poems was published by Harper Brothers. This volume, entitled "Color," takes its place beside ...
New York Sun

Poem of the Day: ‘Bread and Wine’

Countee Cullen (1903–1946) has appeared in our pages before, with “Saturday’s Child,” a Poem of the Day this past August. He was raised as the adopted child of a Harlem minister before his meteoric ...
insider.si.edu

Countee Cullen

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing,/to make a poet black and bid him sing!” With these words, Countee Cullen ...