Audiobooks by Countee Cullen

101 Great American Poems: To My Dear and Loving Husband, The Planting of the Apple-Tree, Concord Hymn, The Arrow and the Song, Alone, Annabel Lee and others

"Discover the heartbeat of American poetry through 101 Great American Poems — a carefully curated collection that spans centuries of voices. From the reflective verses of Anne Bradstreet to the bold rhythms of Langston Hughes, this anthology captures the soul of a nation through themes of love, loss, freedom, and hope. Tracing a journey from Puritan resolve to the artistic fervor of the Harlem Renaissance, these poems invite readers to explore America's evolving identity across generations and genres. A testament to the enduring power of words, this anthology invites readers to witness the evolution of a nation's spirit — in verse, in rhythm, in timeless reflection. This collection brings together iconic voices, including: Anne Bradstreet Phillis Wheatley William Cullen Bryant Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allan Poe Abraham Lincoln Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Herman Melville Walt Whitman Frances E. W. Harper Emily Dickinson Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ernest Lawrence Thayer Edwin Arlington Robinson Stephen Crane James Weldon Johnson Paul Laurence Dunbar Gertrude Stein Vachel Lindsay Claude McKay Countee Cullen Amy Lowell James Oppenheim Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emma Lazarus Louisa May Alcott Ellis Parker Butler Hugh Henry Brackenridge Matthew Arnold William Butler Yeats William Blake Sara Teasdale William Barnes  "

Abraham Lincoln, Amy Lowell, Anne Bradstreet, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ellis Parker Butler, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Frances E. W. Harper, Gertrude Stein, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, James Oppenheim, James Weldon Johnson, Louisa May Alcott, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Crane, Vachel Lindsay, Walt Whitman, William Barnes, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Cullen Bryant (Author), Mark Bowen (Narrator)

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70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays: Passing, The Goophered Grapevine, The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others

"African 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 enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. The collection includes works by such prominent masters of American literature as Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt , Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington , W. E. B. Du Bois and many others. Novels and short stories Frederick Douglass THE HEROIC SLAVE Nella Larsen QUICKSAND PASSING THE WRONG MAN FREEDOM SANCTUARY Alice Dunbar-Nelson A CARNIVAL JANGLE VIOLETS THE WOMAN TEN MINUTES' MUSING TITEE Charles W. Chesnutt THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE PO' SANDY SIS' BECKY'S PICKANINNY THE DOLL THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH Paul Laurence Dunbar THE SCAPEGOAT Jean Toomer BECKY Poetry Phillis Wheatley TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, EARL OF DARTMOUTH ON VIRTUE AN HYMN TO THE MORNING AN HYMN TO THE EVENING Frances E. W. Harper BURY ME IN A FREE LAND SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE MY MOTHER'S KISS A GRAIN OF SAND OUR HERO THE SPARROW'S FALL James Weldon Johnson SENCE YOU WENT AWAY Paul Laurence Dunbar THE LESSON SYMPATHY WE WEAR THE MASK Claude McKay AFTER THE WINTER IF WE MUST DIE THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK Countee Cullen FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR INCIDENT LANGSTON HUGHES THE WEARY BLUES JAZZONIA NEGRO DANCERS THE CAT AND THE SAXOPHONE (2 A. M.) YOUNG SINGER CABARET TO MIDNIGHT NAN AT LEROY'S TO A LITTLE LOVER-LASS, DEAD HARLEM NIGHT CLUB NUDE YOUNG DANCER YOUNG PROSTITUTE TO A BLACK DANCER IN 'THE LITTLE SAVOY' SONG FOR A BANJO DANCE BLUES FANTASY LENOX AVENUE: MIDNIGHT Non-fiction Frederick Douglass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Harriet Jacobs INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Booker T. Washington UP FROM SLAVERY William Still UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Henry Box Brown James Hambleton Christian Theophilus Collins Seth Concklin William and Ellen Craft Abram Galloway and Richard Eden Charles Gilbert Samuel Green Jamie Griffin Harry Grimes James Hamlet and Others John Henry Hill Ann Maria Jackson and Her Seven Children Jane Johnson Matilda Mahoney Mary Frances Melvin Aunt Hannah Moore Alfred S. Thornton   Essays W. E. B. Du Bois THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK Charles W. Chesnutt THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO Paul Laurence Dunbar REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN NEGROES"

Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Booker T. Washington, Charles W. Chesnutt, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Still (Author), Jowanna Lewis, Mark Bowen, Peter Coates, Rick Walz, Shawna Wolf (Narrator)

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The Great Poems by African American Writers: Selections from Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and many others

"African 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 enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.   Phillis Wheatley To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth On Virtue An Hymn To the Morning An Hymn To the Evening   Frances E. W. Harper Bury Me in a Free Land Songs for the People My Mother's Kiss A Grain of Sand Our Hero The Sparrow's Fall   James Weldon Johnson Sence You Went Away   Paul Laurence Dunbar The Lesson Sympathy We Wear the Mask   Claude McKay After the Winter If We Must Die The Tropics in New York   Countee Cullen For Paul Laurence Dunbar Incident Langston Hughes The Weary Blues Jazzonia Negro Dancers The Cat And The Saxophone (2 A. M.) Young Singer Cabaret To Midnight Nan At Leroy'S To A Little Lover-Lass, Dead Harlem Night Club Nude Young Dancer Young Prostitute To A Black Dancer In 'The Little Savoy' Song For A Banjo Dance Blues Fantasy Lenox Avenue: Midnight"

Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley (Author), Shawna Wolf (Narrator)

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Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen

"The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth: The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Copper Sun by Countee Cullen, delivered by three multiaward–winning narrators."

Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Langston Hughes (Author), Kevin Kenerly, Robin Miles, Ron Butler (Narrator)

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Black Words Matter - The Journey Of African American Poetry

"This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. Over ages, eons and countless generations humanity has sought to better itself. Ideas and cultures have sprung forth creating fertile conditions for change and advancement. We have gathered together as families, clans, tribes and nations in the clear knowledge that together more can be achieved for the individual. New systems have evolved, waxed and waned, been replaced or discarded by bright shiny new ones. From afar the chances of humanity bettering itself must seem promising. But today's generations find themselves searching not only for answers from others but also from themselves, for solutions to turn a world where privilege, wealth and power reside with the few to be the right of the many. These unequal times will not give way easily. Entrenched interests will promise change and deliver little. This is the real history of the human race. We will claim that education, health care and jobs are for everyone and yet continue to mis-educate, to ignore primary care and offer jobs that even a robot would think twice about.Those oppressed by race, creed, gender or colour will find the invisible walls of the status quo difficult to overcome. But there is hope - if we collectively want action. When we don't merely call for that change but when we demand that change from ourselves, and from society. When we charge our political leaders to serve our interests rather than their own.We may be created equal but society, and ourselves, sort, layer and assemble us all into groups, those it can keep underfoot and those who will have an unequal share. Real change requires all of us to change, to recognise that equal opportunity starts from equal access to resources. We need to praise ourselves less and provoke ourselves to do more, together. If the pain is shared the rewards can be shared.This volume does not dwell only on equality but covers a very wide range of subjects from recognised masters of the craft such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phyllis Wheatley to lesser known poets like Mary E Tucker and Charles Lewis Reason.The reality is that we are more interested in changing our phones than changing our attitudes and the real changes that will bring. Both can be done in an instant. In an era of disposable everything we stick rigidly to keeping what we have and yet, bleat that oppression is wrong. Fair-weather activists. The news cycle will pass. So does the moment.....until the next time.In this collection of poems poets down the ages illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. They call and illustrate the need for change. It's an enduring problem that seeks sensible and enduring solutions. If it be our will both we and society can change.They call and illustrate the need for change. 1 - Black Words Matter - An Introduction2 - A Poem for Children with Thoughts On Death by Jupiter Hammon3 - An Evening Thought by Jupiter Hammon4 - Bars Fight by Lucy Terry5 - On Virtue by Phyllis Wheatley6 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley7 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley8 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley9 - Praise of Creation by George Moses Horton10 - On the Poetic Muse by George Moses Horton11 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton12 - Epigram by Arrmand Lanusse13 - The Campaign of 1814-1815 by Hippolyte Castra14 - The Slave Trade Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten15 - A Poem on the Fugitive Slave Law by Elymas Payson Rogers16 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason17 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason18 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson19 - To the White People of America by Joshua McCarter Simpson20 - To.... by James Monroe Whitfield21 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield22 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper23 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper24 - Burial of Sarah by Frances E W Harper25 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper26 - Reflections, Written On Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato27 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato28 - I Would Be Free by Alfred Gibbs Campbell29 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell30 - Creation Light by James Madison Bell31 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell32 - The Corn Song by John Wesley Holloway33 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke34 - Light In Darkness by Mary E Tucker35 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker36 - Hope by Mary E Tucker37 - Good-bye. Off For Kansas by John Willis Menard38 - Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken39 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken40 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken41 - In Memoriam. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham42 - The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham43 - Wish for an Overcoat by Alfred Islay Walden44 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman45 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray46 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray47 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune48 - Brave Man and Brave Woman by Charlotte E Linden49 - Scraps of Time by Charlotte E Linden50 - The Feet of Judas by George Marion McClellan51 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner52 - Thine Own by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard53 - The Black Sampson by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard54 - De Linin' ub de Hymns by Daniel Webster Davis55 - The Widening Light by Carrie Williams Clifford56 - It Was Not Fate by William H Moore57 - To a Skull by Joshua Henry Jones Jnr58 - A Night In June by James Edwin Campbell59 - Ol' Doc Hyar by James Edwin Campbell60 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell61 - The Door of Hope by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer62 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer63 - The Voice of the Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer64 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson65 - At the Closed Gate of Justice by James D Corrothers66 - Treasured Moments by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks67 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman68 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson69 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson70 - O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson71 - To America by James Weldon Johnson72 - To A Deceased Friend by Priscilla Jane Thompson73 - Emancipation by Priscilla Jane Thompson74 - For the Man Who Fails by Paul Laurence Dunbar75 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar76 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar77 - The Fount of Tears by Paul Laurence Dunbar78 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar79 - Ain't That Hard. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187380 - The Prettiest Thing That I Ever Did. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187381 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187382 - Impressions by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson83 - If I Had Known by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson84 - Sonnet by Alice Dunbar-Nelson85 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins86 - The Heart's Desire by Roberet W Justice87 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson88 - The Rubinstein Staccato Etude by R Nathaniel Dett89 - Time to Die by Ray G Dandridge90 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison91 - Poetry by Claude McKay92 - The White House by Claude McKay93 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay94 - The Lynching by Claude McKay95 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter96 - Is it Because I'm Black by Joseph S Cotter Jnr97 - The Washer-Woman by Otto Leland Bohanan98 - Negro Woman by Lewis Alexander99 - Africa by Lewis Alexander100 - Enchantment by Lewis Alexander101 - Fire! by Wallace Thurman102 - Confession by Wallace Thurman103 - A Brown Girl Dead by Countee Cullen104 - Tableau by Countee Cullen105 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen106 - Jungle Taste by Edward S Silvera107 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera108 - On the Death of a Child by Edward Silvera"

Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Darrell Joe, Laurel Lefkow, Trei House (Narrator)

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Great African American Literary Voices

"Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Arna Bontemps, Nocturne At Bethesda; Countee Cullen, Heritage; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Vacant Lot; and Sonia Sanchez, Black Magic."

Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez (Author), Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez (Narrator)

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