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Color (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English, Color was a brilliant debut by a poet who had already gained a reputation as a leading... See More
Poetry
Countee Cullen was already a prominent literary figure when he published Color, his auspicious debut collection of poetry. In deceptively simple verse, and in harmony with lyric tradition rather than rebellion against it... See More
This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt... See More
Countee Cullen was born in 1903 in a time when Black poets were often not given much support or respect. It's not even known exactly where Countee was born. We do know that when Countee was fifteen, he was taken in by the... See More
Countee Cullen was born in 1903 in a time when Black poets were often not given much support or respect. It's not even known exactly where Countee was born. We do know that when Countee was fifteen, he was taken in by the... See More
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s... See More
ClassicsPaul Lawrence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Nelson Dunbar, Angeline Weld Grimke, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Phillis Wheatley are among the classic and modern Black poets included in Appreciation of Black Poets. An... See More
PoetryAfrican American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of... See More
PoetryAfrican American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of... See More
Literature & FictionAfrican American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Discover the explosive literary magazine that shook up the African-American community during the Harlem Renaissance. Fire!! was founded in 1926 by a talented group of exceptional Black writers and artists, including Langston... See More