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Poems Published in "Poetry" Magazine

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Poetry Magazine, founded in 1912 was one of the most influential magazines for modern poetry. Published in Chicago, Illinois and edited by Harriet Monroe, Poetry was known as a venue that was receptive to modernist and experimental verse, especially in the 1910s and through the intercession of Ezra Pound. 

In the mid-1920s, the magazine did publish four poems by Langston Hughes and four poems by Countee Cullen.

The magazine also reviewed Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) and Cullen's Color (1926). However, by and large, the magazine appeared to remain off-limits to Black writers. Between 1925-1928 -- the peak years of the Harlem Renaissance -- these eight poems were the only poems by Black writers to appear in the magazine. 

Contents of this path:

  1. Langston Hughes, "Hard Luck" 1927)
  2. Langston Hughes, "Po' Boy Blues" (1927)
  3. Langston Hughes, "Red Roses"
  4. Langston Hughes, "Suicide" (1927)
  5. Countee Cullen, "Two Thoughts of Death" (1927)
  6. Countee Cullen, "The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth" (1926)
  7. Countee Cullen, "Threnody for a Brown Girl" (1925)
  8. Countee Cullen, "Epitaphs" (1925)