African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Waring Cuney, Biographical Note in "Caroling Dusk" (1927)

WARING CUNEY was born in Washington, D. C., May 6, 1906. He received his education in the public schools of that city and at Howard University. Later he attended Lincoln University, and while there sang in the Glee Club and the quartet. His work with these groups encouraged him to study music and he is now studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. His first published poem was “No Images” which won first award in the Opportunity contest of 1926. Since then he has continued to write and his poems have appeared in Opportunity, Braithwaite's Anthology, The Forum, and Palms.

Published in Caroling Dusk, 1927

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