(The Root) — On June 4, the New York State Writers Hall of Fame will induct five outstanding authors, including Calvin Trillin, Alice McDermott, Walter Mosley, Marilyn Hacker and the late Countee ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A staged reading of Medea, the classic revenge drama, adapted by Countee Cullen in English from the play by Euripides will take place at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in the intimate Theatre Four.

CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...