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"Four Lincoln University Poets: Notes on the Writers" (1930)

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Notes on the Writers

WARING CUNEY, whose home is in Washington, did not complete his course at Lincoln University, but left at the end of his sophomore year to study music in Boston. His poems have appeared in Opportunity, Palms, Caroling Dusk, and the German anthology of Negro verse,
Afrika Sings.

WILLIAM ALLYN HILL, '29, of Frederick County, Maryland, is the last of four brothers to be graduated from Lincoln University, representing the third generation of his family at that institution. The poem Fugitive Serfs won the Phi Lambda Sigma Literary Prize for 1929
at the University and was later published in Opportunity. Mr. Hill is at present a student of singing, in Boston.

EDWARD SILVERA, '28, is now in the department of medicine at Howard University. He was Colored Junior Tennis Champion for the State of New Jersey in 1923-24 and a member of the varsity basketball squad at college. His home is in Orange, New Jersey. His poems have appeared in The Crisis, Opportunity and Caroling Dusk.

LANGSTON HUGHES, '29, is the author of two books of verse, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew.  Before coming to Lincoln, he worked as a seaman to the West Coast of Africa, Holland and the Mediterranean. He is now living in the country near New York City, at work on a novel.
 

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