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	glbtq >> literature >> Cullen, Countee
		Countee Cullen, an African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was heralded as the "poet laureate" of the period.
		Cullen was committed to a career as a poet from as early as his high school years; by the time he finished undergraduate school, he had published his first book of poetry, Color (1925).
		Understanding Cullen's poetry in the context of the gay closet in which it was written is the cornerstone on which to rebuild Cullen's reputation as a gay poet laureate and as the inaugurator of a fl gay male poetic tradition.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/cullen_c.html (1241 words)

	Countee Cullen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 - January 9, 1946) was an American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance.
		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 fls or use popular fl themes in his writing.
		Cullen was a prominent member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
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	MSN Encarta - Countee Cullen
		Cullen was one of the best-known fl poets of the first half of the 20th century and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
		Countee Porter Cullen attended the city’s prestigious De Witt Clinton High School, where he served as editor of the school newspaper and the literary magazine The Magpie.
		Cullen published two books for children, The Lost Zoo (1940) and My Lives and How I Lost Them (1942), both of which he playfully claimed were written in collaboration with a house cat.
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	Countee Cullen was a Yonkers Resident
		Countee Cullen was raised by his grandmother, Amanda Porter, and when she died in 1917 he went to live with the Reverend Frederick A. Cullen, pastor of the Salem Methodist Church at 129th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City.
		Cullen attended New York University on a Regent's Scholarship from 1921-1925 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior.
		Cullen's funeral was January 13, 1946 at the Salem Methodist Church in Harlem and burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
	www.yonkershistory.org /9_1_1.html (836 words)

	Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
		Countee Cullen is an important figure of the African-American arts movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.
		Cullen's contemporaries (the best-known ones among the writers) were Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay; contrast the poetic method of social protest by studying poems written by each of these poets.
		Cullen looked beyond his own rich heritage for authorial models and chose John Keats, firmly convinced that "To make a poet fl, and bid him sing" was a "curious thing" that God had done.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cullen.html (1159 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Countee Cullen
		Countee Cullen was born Countee Porter on May 30, 1903, in New York.
		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.
		Countee Cullen taught French and English at the Frederick Douglass Junior High School, PS 139, for many years and was a very popular teacher there.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/cullen.html (507 words)

	Capital Outlook: Countee Cullen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Cullen once said that he was born in New York City — perhaps he did not mean it literally.
		Cullen also translated the Greek tragedy “Medea” by Euripides, which was published in “The Medea and Some Poems” (1935), with a collection of sonnets and short lyrics.
		As a poet Cullen was conservative: he did not ignore racial themes, but based his works on the romantic poets, especially Keats, and often used the traditional sonnet form.
	www.capitaloutlook.com /History/historyarchives/Counteecullen.html (798 words)

	Poet: Countée Cullen - All poems of Countée Cullen
		Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage.
		Countee Cullen was born with the name Countee LeRoy Porter and was abandoned by his mother at birth.
		Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, was born Countee Leroy Porter on May 30, 1903.
	www.poemhunter.com /count-e-cullen (331 words)

	Countee Cullen Biography and Summary
		The American Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was one of the most widely heralded African American poets of the Harlem renaissance, though he was less concerned with social and political problems than were his African American contemporaries.
		Countee Cullen became a central figure in the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance and in American poetry in general with the publication of his first book, Color (1925), which fl and white critics hailed as both beautiful and promising.
		Countee Cullen(May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance.
	www.bookrags.com /Countee_Cullen (397 words)

	Countee Cullen
		Cullen's success at a young age led him to be viewed as a possible crossover figure for the Harlem Renaissance.
		Cullen represented the Harlem Renaissance's efforts toward an assimilated fl American who still maintains his or her racial consciousness.
		Cullen's poetry was influenced by British Romantic poet John Keats.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~schonberg/e314s04/literature/tess_cullen.htm (384 words)

	COUNTEE CULLEN 1903
		Cullen's early history remained a mystery for decades, by his own choice — he was adopted as a teenager, and from that point on was always reticent about his birthplace and former family.
		Cullen won a citywide poetry contest while he was still in high school, and wrote much of the material for his first two volumes of poetry as an undergraduate at New York University.
		Cullen explained that he chose forms and ideas that he believed transcended race because he wanted to be regarded simply as a poet, not a fl poet.
	www.wntb.com /blackachievers/counteecullen (969 words)

	Countee Cullen
		Countee Cullen was considered by many to be the most promising of the young poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
		Cullen preferred not to be considered as a Black poet, but rather wanted to achieve success on the basis of traditional English standards.
		Countee Cullen recounts in this work imaginary conversations he holds with his cat, Christopher Cat, whose father was descended from the "Christopher Cat" who was on Noah's Ark. In The Lost Zoo Christopher relates stories about the other animals who were invited but did not get on.
	www.duboislc.org /ShadesOfBlack/CounteeCullen.html (539 words)

	COUNTEE CULLEN - BLACK SATIN COLLECTIBLES
		However, Cullen considered poetry raceless, although his 'The Black Christ' took a racial theme, lynching of a fl youth for a crime he did not commit.
		Cullen once said that he was born in New York City - perhaps he did not mean it literally.
		At the age of 15, Cullen was adopted unofficially by the Reverend F.A. Cullen, minister of Salem M.E. Church, one of the largest congregations of Harlem.
	www.blacksatincollectibles.com /counteecullen.htm (1166 words)

	About Countee Cullen's Life and Career
		Countee Cullen himself stated in Caroling Dusk (1927) that he was "reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage," and it is clear that his foster father was a particularly strong influence.
		Cullen was also at the center of one of the major social events of the Harlem Renaissance: On 9 April 1928 he married Yolande Du Bois, only child of W E. Du Bois, in one of the most lavish weddings in fl New York history.
		Cullen said that he wanted to be known as a poet, not a "Negro poet." This did not affect his popularity, although some Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes, interpreted this to mean that he wanted to deny his race, an interpretation endorsed by some later scholars.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/cullen/life.htm (3331 words)

	Renaissance Collage - Artist Profile::Countee Cullen
		Reverend Cullen used his influence to enroll Countee in the prestigious De Witt Clinton High School in Manhattan, where Countee was one of the few fl students.
		At De Witt Clinton Cullen excelled as a student becoming a member of the honor society and editor of the school newspaper.
		Cullen finished high school in 1922 and immediately enrolled in New York University where he earned his Bachelors in 1925; he was named to Phi Beta Kappa.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA03/faturoti/harlem/collage/cullen.html (250 words)

	PAL: Countee Cullen
		A dedicated craftsman, Cullen was criticized for being conventional, for using the British romantic poets as his models, and for insisting that poetry in general should be free of racial and political matters.
		Cullen was one of few fl students on campus; this however did not stop him from becoming very active in his campus community.
		Cullen also fought against the idea of Western religion and Christianity because he felt that a white God was unable to understand the sufferings of a fl people.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/cullen.html (2089 words)

	LitKicks: Countee Cullen
		Countee Cullen was one of the most respected poets with the intellectual patrons of the Harlem Renaissance.
		Born in 1903, Cullen was adopted by a Harlem preacher at a young age.
		Countee Cullen's poetry was a far cry from the modern poetry of his day.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=CounteeCullen (645 words)

	Ostrom, Countee Cullen
		Countee Cullen led a double literary life, the ostensible "non-literary" (teaching) part of which we dare not ignore if we are to understand his work, his milieu, and his poetics fully.
		Among the Amistad Center materials is a graduate paper Cullen wrote for Irving Babbitt during a brief stint at Harvard: "Walter Pater as a Romantic Critic." It is an accomplished piece of criticism, notable in part for the maturity of its argument, its understanding of romantic poetics, and its confident prose style.
		This is a quintessentially aloof, unhelpful response to Cullen's essay, of course.
	www.sciway.net /edu/k12/cet9596/ostrom.html (4456 words)

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		Born in 1903, Countee Cullen was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
		Cullen's poetry was in the lyric romantic tradition of Keats and Shelley, though he often (but not exclusively) touched upon racial concerns.
		Cullen included in his letters many handwritten and manuscript copies of his poems, in addition to a few newspaper clippings of his published poems, and copies of the high school literary journal and newspaper for which Cullen wrote.
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	Countee Cullen (1903-1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Unlike Langston Hughes, Cullen did not believe that fl cultural expressive forms such as the blues and jazz should be parlayed into the art of poetics.
		Yet, Cullen was continually pulled by his desire to express race as a theme in his poetry.
		Cullen dealt humorously with the problem of race relations in the above poem entitled "For a Lady I Know." However, several of his other poems deal very seriously with racism, questions of fl identity and ties to Africa, poverty, social injustices and the poet’s role in voicing them all.
	www.unc.edu /courses/pre2000fall/eng81br1/CULLEN.html (484 words)

	Countee Cullen
		Cullen once said that he was born in New York City - perhaps he did not mean it literally.
		At the age of 15, Cullen was adopted unofficially by the Reverend F.A. Cullen, minister of Salem M.E. Church, one of the largest congregations of Harlem.
		As a poet Cullen was conservative: he did not ignore racial themes, but based his works on the Romantic poets, especially Keats, and often used the traditional sonnet form.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ccullen.htm (1197 words)

	Countee Cullen Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Countee Cullen was born in Louisville, Kentucy or Baltimore, Md., and reared by a woman who was probably his paternal grandmother.
		Cullen's Guggenheim Fellowship of 1928 enabled him to study and write abroad and between the years 1928 and 1934 Cullen travelled back and forth between France and the United States.
		As a poet Cullen was conservative: he did not ignore racial themes, but based his works on the models of 19th-century Romantic poets, especially Keats, and Poften used the traditional sonnet form.
	www.litweb.net /biography/110/Countee_Cullen.html (912 words)

	Countee Cullen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Countee Cullen was considered an important poet of the “Negro Awakening.” Born in May 1903, little is known of his father and mother or of his early years in New York.
		Cullen attended De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx and New York University.
		Cullen lived in Paris for two years and like Richard Wright and James Baldwin experienced relatively little racial discrimination there.
	members.aol.com /hynews/cullen.htm (329 words)

	Vignette: Countee Cullen
		COUNTEE CULLEN, a skilled poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance, was born in New York City in 1903 and raised by his maternal grandmother.
		A white Methodist Episcopal couple (the Cullens) unofficially adopted the bright and vibrant lad.
		Cullen distinguished himself academically at the predominantly white DeWitt Clinton High School and went on to receive a B.A. from New York University in 1925 and an M.A. from Howard in 1926.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/cullen_countee.htm (158 words)

	Rendezvous with Life: An Interview with Countee Cullen, James Baldwin
		Countee Cullen was born May 30, 1903, the son of a Methodist minister and his devout wife.
		Cullen then briefly reviewed how he had received his bachelor's degree at New York University, his Master of Arts at Harvard, and how in 1925 his first book of poetry was published.
		Cullen, as per custom, for some secret of success, I was told "There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the 'breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things—read and write—and wait."
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	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Cullen resisted being pigeonholed as a fl poet, yet many of his poems tackled issues of race.
		Cullen's 1928 marriage to Yolanda Du Bois, daughter of civil rights pioneer W. Du Bois, was a watershed event in Harlem society; guests packed not only the church balcony but the streets outside.
		Cullen dedicated his poem "To a Brown Boy" to Langston Hughes, an usher at his wedding.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/faces/cullen_text.html (467 words)

	African American Registry: Countee Cullen, poet and publisher
		Countee Cullen* was born on this date in 1903.
		From New York City Cullen was essentially a lyric poet whose work was influenced by that of the English poet John Keats.
		Cullen also wrote a novel dealing with life in Harlem, One Way to Heaven (his only novel) 1932 and a children's book, The Lost Zoo, 1940.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/213/Countee_Cullen_poet_and_publisher (186 words)

	Countee Cullen Poetry Profile
		Born Countee Porter, in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was the adopted son of Reverend Frederick Cullen, the prominent minister and pastor of the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem.
		The precocious Countee began writing poetry while in elementary school and his first published poem, "I Have a Rendezvous With Life," was featured in his high school's literary magazine.
		Countee was elected to class office and to ARISTA, the scholastic honor society.
	www.miamipoetryreview.com /2007/01/countee-cullen-poetry010207.html (365 words)

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