Today’s Poem: Saturday’s Child
Countee Cullen’s bad-luck fairy tale
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In Today’s Poem, the 1925 “Saturday’s Child,” the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen (1903–1946) inverts the old proverbs, truisms, fairy tales, and mythologies surrounding a birth. For his speaker, the conventional imagery of good fortune and anointing — the silver spoon, t…
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