1. Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (19031946). http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/cullen.html

Countee Cullen Heritage For A Poet Simon the Cyrenian Speaks The Wise ... From the Dark Tower Heritage For Harold Jackman What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? One three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved, Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, What is Africa to me? So I lie, who all day long Want no sound except the song Sung by wild barbaric birds Goading massive jungle herds, Juggernauts of flesh that pass Trampling tall defiant grass Where young forest lovers lie, Plighting troth beneath the sky. So I lie, who always hear, Though I cram against my ear Both my thumbs, and keep them there, Great drums throbbing through the air. So I lie, whose fount of pride, Dear distress, and joy allied, Is my somber flesh and skin, With the dark blood dammed within Like great pulsing tides of wine That, I fear, must burst the fine Channels of the chafing net Where they surge and foam and fret.

2. Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (1903 1946). a web guide toCountee Cullen from literaryhistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Cullen.htm

Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946) a web guide to Countee Cullen from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century outline authors, alphabetical 19th century authors General Articles http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=56 An introduction to Countee Cullen from the Academy of American Poets. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htm An introduction, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois). http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cullen.html Issues and questions for teachers and readers of Cullen's poetry, from Heath guides. http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/cullen.html A profile of Countee Cullen from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm A biography by Petri Liukkonen from Books and Writers. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/cullen.html A list of reference works on Cullen and some study questions, from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site. http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm

3. Countee Cullen COUNTEE CULLEN. Countee Cullen was considered an important poet ofthe “Negro Awakening.” Born in May 1903, little is known of http://members.aol.com/hynews/cullen.htm

COUNTEE CULLEN He lived with his maternal mother until he was thirteen and was then adopted by the Reverend Frederick A.Cullen, minister of the Salem African Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem. Cullen attended De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx and New York University. 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 (1925), his first book of verse, published the same year that he graduated from NYU. The young writer also served as an assistant editor of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life , edited by Charles S. Johnson, the well-known Negro sociologist. Through his position on Opportunity , Cullen came to know the important writers of the Negro Awakening: Langston Hughes, Zora N. Hurston, Eric Walrond, E. Franklin Frazier, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, and Sterling Brown. In 1927 the poet published two other volumes of verse - Copper Sun and The Ballad of the Brown Girl - and edited an anthology of Negro poetry

4. Poetry Today Online : Classic Poets: Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (190346) The poet Countee Cullen was one of the major contributorsto the 1920s literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.poetrytodayonline.com/NOVcp.html

November 1998 Countee Cullen U.S. poet, born in New York, N.Y.; wrote of comedy and tragedy in life of black Americans with lyric, wistful beauty. The poet Countee Cullen was one of the major contributors to the 1920s literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Through his verse, Cullen gave expression to the character of African-American life as he experienced it. The Harlem Renaissance, a period of great achievement in African-American art and literature, was pushed to a new high with the 1925 publication of Cullen's volume of poems entitled Color . His sensuous lyric verse expressed themes in the life of his race and shed light on social reality. Cullen's other verse collections include: Copper Sun The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927) and The Black Christ (1929). His novel, One Way to Heaven , appeared in 1932. Cullen was awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize from New York University. According to his friend and literary collaborator Arna Bontemps, Cullen was much preoccupied with the question of whether he would be remembered as a poet or as a "Negro poet." "Almost his only public comments about the art in which he expressed himself were pleas for an evaluation of his work strictly on its merits, without racial considerations. He was to learn, however, that this was no easy matter." The Saturday Review, March 23, 1947 p. 44. In the monument pictured below, the artist has rendered the question rather than the answer, exploring an issue we still face today, 50 years after the poet's death. A bronze-colored Countee Cullen is portrayed reaching out to a bust of himself in the traditional representation of a poet: a white marble-colored bust crowned with a laurel wreath. His other hand holds his book "Color."

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6. Periodicals And Books Held At The Amistad Research Center That Contain Article B 1971.*. Twombly, Robert C. Cullen, Countee. Collier’s Encyclopedia Edition,1997.**. Woods, Gregory. cullen countee. The Lost Zoo. Engelwood http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/hrbiblio.html

*Denotes periodicals and books held at the Amistad Research Center that contain articles by/about Cullen. ** Denotes periodicals and books on databases since 1963. Harlem Renaissance - Including Cullen and "The Horizon." Crisis 31, Feb 1926: 179.* "The Horizon." Crisis, Feb 1927: 206.* Phylon 11 , (1950): 216-221 (Microfilm).* Adoff, Arnold. I am the darker brother; an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans. New York: MacMillan, 1968.* Ako, Edward O. "The African Inspiration of the Black Arts Movement." Diogenes 135 Fall (1986): 93-104. ** Allison, Madeline. "The Horizon." Crisis 24, (Oct 1922): 272.* Anderson, Jervis. My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. (Book Review) The New Republic v204 n14 April 8 (1991): 27+. ** Ankenbrand, Frank. The house of vanity. Philadelphia: Liebman Press, 1928.* Avi, Ram and F. Amitai "The Unreadable Black Body: ‘The Conventional Poetic Form in the Harlem Renaissance." Genders. March 7 (1990): 32-46. ** Baker, Houston A.

7. Countee Cullen Countee Cullen A Legacy of Names for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgenderand queer communities. Countee Cullen Biography. By Petri Liukkonen. Excerpt http://www.queertheory.com/histories/c/cullen_countee.htm

Histories Index Paul Cadmus John Cage Pat Califia ... George Cukor Countee Cullen Merce Cunningham Michael Cunningham John Curry Catie Curtis ... Find A Subject Countee Cullen Online Resources Texts: Countee Cullen Texts: Harlem Renaissance Texts: Queer Histories ... Used Books: LGBT Studies Names Index: A B C D ... Scholars Index Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition by Patricia Liggins Hill (Editor), Bernard W. Bell (Editor), Trudier Harris, Patricia Liggins Hill (Editor) More than a decade in the making, Call and Response is a ground-breaking anthology of African American literature, unique in its placing equal emphasis on the written and the oral dimensions of the black aesthetic. It traces the centuries-long emergence of this distinct literary tradition from its earliest roots in African proverbs, folktales, and chants to its latest flowering in the works of such writers as Rita Dove, August Wilson, and Terry McMillan. Here, in 2,000 pages and 550 selections, is (in the words of Richard Wright) the "long black song" of African American life, sung in a great choir of voices, from the slaves of the 1600s to the rap artists, orators, novelists, and poets of today.

8. Countee Cullen Countee Porter Cullen (19031946) was a significant personality during the HarlemRenaissance. In 1925 Cullen published his first book of poetry Color . http://aalbc.com/authors/countee.htm

AALBC Home Author Index Back Author Home ... Countee Cullen Photo Carl Van Vecten Countee Porter Cullen (1903-1946) was a significant personality during the Harlem Renaissance. In 1925 Cullen published his first book of poetry "Color". Two years later he published his second book, "Copper Sun". Cullen was also a mentor to James Baldwin . Cullen met Baldwin while teaching at Frederick Douglass Junior High School in New York. Cullen's was married for about two years to W. E. B. Dubois' daughter Nina. The wedding was considered one of the most significant social events during the Harlem Renaissance (also known as the "New Negro Movement"). Click any of the titles below to order the book below Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties Long out of print, this anthologyfeaturing work by figures such as W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughesincludes poignant biographical notes written for the most part by the poets themselves. (Feb.) -Publisher's Weekly You Save Lost Zoo You Save You Save AALBC.com Home

9. Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (19031946) poet, novelist, playwright photo by James L. AllenCountee Cullen was born Countee Porter on May 30, 1903, in New York. http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/cullen.html

Home Timeline Exhibition For Teachers Resources Countee Cullen (1903-1946) poet, novelist, playwright photo by James L. Allen Countee Cullen was born Countee Porter on May 30, 1903, in New York. He was the adopted son of Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Ashbury Cullen. Reverend Cullen was an influential minister who pastored Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the largest churches in Harlem at that time. "I Have a Rendezvous With Life," Cullen's first published poem, appeared in the DeWitt Clinton High School literary magazine, The Magpie , in 1921. He had been writing poetry since he was in elementary school. DeWitt Clinton was considered to be one of the finest public schools in New York at the time and very few African-American students were enrolled there. Young Countee did very well in school and was elected to class office as well as serving in an editorial capacity on several of his school publications. He was elected to ARISTA, the scholastic honor society, and upon graduation, received distinctions in Latin, mathematics, English, history and French. In 1925, Cullen graduated from New York University with honors. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was nationally known as a poet by then. His first book of poems

10. COUNTEE CULLEN COUNTEE CULLEN. Countee Cullen was born in 1903 in New York City. Hebegan writing poetry during his high school years and his poems http://www.litelit.com/cullen.html

COUNTEE CULLEN Countee Cullen was born in 1903 in New York City. He began writing poetry during his high school years and his poems were published after he entered New York University. Soon after, he was published in Harper's the Century Magazine, and Poetry. His poem, Ballad of the Brown Girl , won an undergraduate poetry prize and many other awards in 1923. Harper published his first volume of poetry, Color , in the same year. The black community did not as easily accept Copper Sun , published in 1927, because Cullen did not deal with race in the same way he had in Color . This could be explained by the fact that he was raised and educated in a primarily white community. Because of his limited interpersonal contact with other blacks, he lacked the insight to comment on the personal experiences of the majority of the black race. His perspective on the black race, which differed from other poets of the Harlem Renaissance, only served to make his writings contrast with Renaissance writers such as Langston Hughes. Cullen wrote in the tradition of Keats and Shelley, and resisted the Modernists' new poetic techniques. He died in 1946.

11. COUNTEE CULLEN COUNTEE CULLEN. The Harlem Renaissance and His Effect. For a Lady I Know. Whilepoor black cherubs rise at seven. To do celestial chores. Countee Cullen. http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/KWALTERS.htm

COUNTEE CULLEN The Harlem Renaissance and His Effect For a Lady I Know She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and snores, While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores. Countee Cullen Born Countee Porter May 30, 1903 in Lexington, Kentucky (?), Cullen was raised first by a woman believed to be his paternal grandmother and then in a Methodist parsonage, the adopted son of Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Ashbury Cullen. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in New York and began writing poetry at age 14. I Have A Rendezvous with Life was his first published poem. 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 Soon after he was published in , the Century Magazine , and Poetry He won several awards-for his poem, Ballad of the Brown Girl . Harper published his first volume of verse, Color His second volume of poetry, CopperSun (1927 ) met with controversy in the black community. Cullen did not give the subject of race the same attention he had given it in Color Cullen had been raised and educated in a primarily white community, De Witt was one of the finest public schools in New York and very few African-American students were enrolled there.

12. Countee Cullen Countee Cullen 19031946 1925 - Color A lyrical exploration of Cullen's Africanheritage 1927 - Copper Sun 1927 - The Ballad of the Brown Girl An Old Ballad http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/harlem/cullen_works.

1925 - Color A lyrical exploration of Cullen's African heritage 1927 - Copper Sun 1927 - The Ballad of the Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold 1929 - The Black Christ, and Other Poems Written while in France on a Guggenheim scholarship 1932 - One Way to Heaven Cullen's only novel, a social comedy of life in Harlem 1935 - The Medea and Some Poems A collection of sonnets and short lyrics together with a translation of Euripides's tragedy (in prose with the choruses in verse). 1940 - The Lost Zoo For children 1942 - My Lives and How I Lost Them For children 1947 - On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen 1991 - My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance

13. Countee Cullen Countee Cullen 19031946 Cullen, a poet, novelist, critic and dramatist,grew up in Harlem and attended New York University and Harvard. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/harlem/cullen_bio.ht

Cullen, a poet, novelist, critic and dramatist, grew up in Harlem and attended New York University and Harvard. His work examined contemporary racial issues.

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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946) was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He was preoccupied with the question of whether he would be remembered as a poet or as a "Negro poet." Born in New York, poet Countee Cullen was one of the major contributors to the 1920s literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Through his verse, Cullen gave expression to the character of African-American life as he experienced it. The Harlem Renaissance, a period of great achievement in African-American art and literature, was pushed to a new high with the 1925 publication of Cullen's volume of poems entitled Color. His sensuous lyric verse expressed themes in the life of his race and shed light on social reality. Cullen's other verse collections include: Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927) and The Black Christ (1 929). His novel, One Way to Heaven, appeared in 1932. Cullen was awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize from New York University. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore

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17. Countee Cullen - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/ccullfst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Countee 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 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 Brown Girl," and graduated from New York University in 1923. That same year, Harper published his first volume of verse, Color , and he was admitted to Harvard University where he completed a master's degree. His second volume of poetry, Copper Sun (1927), met with controversy in the black community because Cullen did not give the subject of race the same attention he had given it in Color . He was raised and educated in a primarily white community, and he differed from other poets of the Harlem Renaissance like

18. Countee Cullen Author guide provides an overview of this writer's career and a bibliography. Link to related Harlem Renaissance authors. countee cullen was born in Louisville, Kentucy or Baltimore, Md., and reared by a woman who was probably his paternal http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946) - born Countee LeRoy Porter American poet, a leading figure with Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance (see more below). This 1920s artistic movement produced the first large body of work in the United States written by African Americans. However, Cullen considered poetry raceless, although his poem 'The Black Christ' took a racial theme, lynching of a black youth for a crime he did not commit. I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brains compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

19. Countée Cullen Browse through this collection of four poems by Harlem Renaissance poet countee cullen. Includes "Incident" and "Heritage." Countée cullen Born in 1903 in New York City, countee cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/cullen_countee.html

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 the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize and other awards for his poem, Ballad of the Brown Girl , and graduated from New York University in 1923. That same year, Harper published his first volume of verse, Color, and he was admitted to Harvard University where he completed a master's degree. His second volume of poetry, Copper Sun (1927), met with controversy in the black community because Cullen did not give the subject of race the same attention he had given it in Color. He was raised and educated in a primarily white community, and he differed from other poets of the Harlem Renaissance like Langston Hughes in that he lacked the background to comment from personal experience on the lives of other blacks or use popular black themes in his writing. An imaginative lyric poet, he wrote in the tradition of Keats and Shelley and was resistant to the new poetic techniques of the Modernists. He died in 1946. Cullen's other verse collections include:

20. Countee Porter Cullen (1903-1946) : Teacher Resource File Directory provides links to bibliographies and biographies on this poet. Browse student lessons, online texts and Harlem Renaissance guides. countee Porter cullen (19031946). Teacher Resource File http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cullen.htm

Countee Porter Cullen (1903-1946) Teacher Resource File Biography Bibliography E-texts Lesson Plans ... ERIC Resources Biography Countee Cullen Biography; picture; bibliography Countee Cullen Brief biography Monument to Countee Cullen Information; large graphic file of monument now displayed at the New York Public Library Countee Cullen From American Academy of Poets. Biography, selected bibliography Countee Cullen Biography [Back to Top] Bibliography Countee Cullen. Bibliography PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Bibliography [Back to Top] E-Texts Incident Full text of the poem Poems from the Planet Earth. Countee Cullen Full text of Any Human to Another From the Dark Tower If You Should Go Incident Tableau For a Lady I Know Text of the poem Heritage Full text of poem from American Academy of Poets. Hear the author read his work The Shroud of Color Text of the poem from the American Academy of Poets Yet Do I Marvel Full text from American Academy of Poets Creative Quotations from Countee Cullen Five quotations. cFrankline Baer Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance Text of: "For a Lady I Know", "For a Poet", "From the Dark Tower", "Fruit of the Flower", "Heritage", "Incident", "The Loss of Love", "Saturday's Child", "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks", "That Bright Chemeric Beast", "Yet Do I Marvel", "Youth Sings a Song of RoseBuds", "The Wise"

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