Countee Cullen
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Countee Cullen, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Countee Cullen (March 30, 1903 - January 9, 1946) was an American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance. His most famous poems are "Yet Do I Marvel" and "Incident", the latter of which describes a childhood trip to Baltimore marred by a racial slur. Countee Cullen was raised and educated in a primarily white community. Countee Cullen differed from many other poets of the Harlem Renaissance because he lacked the background to comment from personal experience on the lives of other blacks or use popular black themes in his writing.
Cullen was a prominent member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
External links
- Academy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0303)
- UIUC Modern American Poetry (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htm)