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Prize-Winning Poems
12024-03-12T09:44:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12131Prize-Winning Poems Tagplain2024-03-12T09:44:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1These are poems that won one of the poetry prize competitions that were regularly offered by magazines like "Opportunity" and "The Crisis" through the 1920s.
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12022-01-05T15:00:58-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" (1925)7plain2024-03-15T13:59:43-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-11T15:09:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Arna Bontemps, "Golgotha Is a Mountain" (1926)2plain2024-03-12T10:25:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T09:22:33-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "To One Who Said Me Nay" (1925)2plain2024-03-15T14:01:06-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-15T10:12:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "Trees at Night" (1925)2plain2024-03-15T14:02:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T16:44:59-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Arna Bontemps, "Nocturne at Bethesda" (1926)2plain2024-03-15T16:53:47-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-12T09:46:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mae V. Cowdery, "Lamps" (1927)2plain2024-03-12T09:46:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-12T10:16:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethel M. Caution (Ethel Caution-Davis), "To..." (1927)1plain2024-03-12T10:16:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-06T12:17:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Marguerite A. Lowe, "My Wish" (1927)1plain2024-05-06T12:17:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1