Classics of Black American Protest Poetry
17min2020 OCT 6
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We bring back scholar and poet Clint Smith to reflect on Countee Cullen’s “To Certain Critics.” In this episode, we discuss how Cullen addressed the contemporary controversy surrounding his poetry. In “To Certain Critics,” the poet uses four-stress, tetrameter lines to defend the Black poets’ right to use, and to innovate within, this old ballad form.