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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised by Elizabeth Porter until her death in 1908, this poet of the Harlem Renaissance was raised by the Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Cullen of a New York City Methodist Episcopal Church. www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/cullen.php
Countee Cullen, one of the most notable poets of the Harlem Renaissance, enjoyed considerable acclaim for his early poetry. However, after attention to his work waned, he settled into life as a junior high teacher. afroamhistory.about.com/od/counteecullen/p/bio_cullen_c.htm
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised by Elizabeth Porter until her death in 1908, this poet of the Harlem Renaissance was raised by the Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Cullen of a New York City Methodist Episcopal Church. harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/cullen.php
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However, Cullen considered poetry raceless, although his 'The Black Christ' took a racial theme, lynching of a black youth for a crime he did not commit. www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm
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Cullen was the leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of remarkable literary achievement by African-American writers in New York City during the 1920s. A dedicated craftsman, Cullen was criticized for being conventional, for using the British web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/cullen.html
Cullen resisted being pigeonholed as a black poet, yet many of his poems tackled issues of race. Indeed, he embodied the New Negro movement and the values and abilities of the Talented Tenth (the black intelligentsia). That's no surprise when you consid artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/faces/cullen...
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 publishe poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/55
