Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946)

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Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in New York and began writing poetry at the age of fourteen. In 1922, Cullen entered New York University. His poems were published in The Crisis, under the leadership of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Opportunity, a magazine of the National Urban League. He was soon after published in Harper's, the Century Magazine, and Poetry. He won several awards for his poem, "Ballad of the B.. Continue..

Some of Countee Cullen Poems

A Brown Girl Dead

For A Lady I Know

For A Poet

From the Dark Tower

Fruit of the Flower

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	My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

- Countee Cullen

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