Countee Cullen

Known as one of the most representative voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee was born in 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. He started writing poetry at the age of fourteen. Cullen went to New York University and began being published in The Crisis magazine, a magazine in which we have focused heavily on in class. In 1925 he graduated college and published some of his most notable work such as the poem "Ballad of the Brown Girl" and the collection of poems book title "Color". In Cullen's book it features a variety of over seventy poems.