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Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the donor, unanimously decided that Cullen, who is a Negro, should receive the $150 prize. For two years Cullen had held second place. When he wrote the poems that brought him the award, he was an undergraduate at New York University...
...Bynner, whose co-judges will be Rose O'Neill and Vachel Lindsay, offers the prize under the auspices of Palms, of which he is an associate editor. His Excellency Jose G. Zuno, Governor of Jalisco, offers the winner free fare from the American border to Guadalajara, Mexico, and a term of free tuition in the University of Guadalajara...
Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, Joseph Collins-with these, among lesser names, did the Virginia Quarterly Review (issued by the University of Virginia) dress out a maiden number dated April, 1925. Editor James Southall Wilson, Professor of English at the University, explained that this was only natural. Old tunes best demonstrate a new organ. For the future, the Quarterly coveted "the adventure of presenting distinguished first work wherever it can be found." It would be, in a measure, "peculiarly concerned with themes growing out of the life of the South and especially cordial to the work...
...sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks, all of them forces in the newer poetry, and Witter Bynner, still the patron of Advocate poets here. And would it be malicious to include Amy Lowell herself...
...contest was open to undergraduates of all colleges in the United States. Over a thousand manuscripts were, submitted, coming from colleges and universities in 28 states. The judges were Mr. Witter Bynner '02, well-known playwright and former assistant editor of McClure's Magazine; Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke '04, author and poet; and Mr. Haniel Clark Long '10, of the Poetry Society...