From a star of the Harlem Renaissance, this is a vivid hymn to imaginative freedom That Bright Chimeric Beast That bright chimeric beast Conceived yet never born, Save in the poet’s breast, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As Black History Month winds down, we’re proud to bring you a clip from the KQED archives of Dr. Maya Angelou reciting Countee Cullen’s poem “Heritage.” The clip comes from Blacks, Blues, Black!, a 10 ...
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 ...
Three-year-old Pe'Tehn Raighn-Kem, daughter of Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, performs "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen. CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she ...
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