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Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen was born May 30, 1903 in New York City, Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. Little is known of his father and mother or of his early years in New York but Countee Cullen was born with the name Countee LeRoy Porter and was abandoned by his mother at birth. Countee was raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Porter, but it is unclear where the location of his birth was in fact located because he was very secretive about his life to the community. Countee Cullen was considered an important poet of the "Negro Awakening." As a schoolboy, Cullen won a citywide poetry contest and saw his winning stanzas widely reprinted. With the help of Reverend Cullen, he attended the prestigious De Witt Clinton High School in Manhattan. and began writing poetry at the age of fourteen. He developed early as a poet, "I Have a Rendezvous with Life," "The Ballad of the Brown Girl," and "The Shroud of Color" are poems that Cullen included in color , his first book of verse, published the same......


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