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Black Modernist Poets : Videos

A Gumberg Library Research Guide

A Celebration of Russell Atkins

presented by the CSU Poetry Center, 09/24/2019


Countee Cullen reads "Heritage"

From "Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers" CD


Arna Bontemps reads Helene Johnson's "The Road"

January 1955


Robert Hayden reads "Those Winter Sundays"

Langston Hughes reads "The Weary Blues"

CBUT, 1958


James Weldon Johnson reads, "The Creation"

Columbia University, December 24, 1935


Gwendolyn Brooks reads "We Real Cool"

September 1959


Paul Laurence Dunbar reads "We Wear the Mask"