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Countee Cullen. By: Paul Lee, Lukeman hasan, Alec Maclachlan, Drew Mason. About his life . Born in 1903-1946 in NYC Attended Harvard University Raised in Methodist Parsonage Attended De Witt high school. Poems . Started writing poems since age 14 His first poem was published in 1927
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Countee Cullen By: Paul Lee, Lukeman hasan, Alec Maclachlan, Drew Mason
About his life • Born in 1903-1946 in NYC • Attended Harvard University • Raised in Methodist Parsonage • AttendedDe Witt high school
Poems • Started writing poems since age 14 • His first poem was published in 1927 • 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.
About his family • Married Yolanda Du Bois • Father- Reverend Frederick A. • Mother-Carolyn Belle Cullen
Poem names • Incident • The Wise • For a Poet • For a Lady • Yet do I Marvel • Saturdays Child • The Loss of Love • Fruit of the Flower • Simon the Cyrenian Speaks • Youth Sling a song of Rosebuds