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Countee Cullen By: Joseph Pointer Countee Cullen (Porter) was considered by many to be the most talented of the Harlem Renaissance poets. Cullen was a novelist and a playwright, but he was known by most as a poet. He was born on March 30, 1903 in New York. Cullen was adopted at some point between the time of his birth and 1918. By 1921, he changed his last name to Cullen, from his adopted mothers last name. He attended …

…wisdom and education at New York university, where he joined an all white fraternity called Phi Beta Kappa Honors. Cullen was awarded the Wittier Bynner Poetry Prize for his expressive culture oriented poetry. During his college career he created the book Color for which he won the Harmon Foundations first gold medal for literature.His poems had a direct relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, his poems either included ideological aspects and culture aspects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**