Poetry Corner
Today we're celebrating the birthday of Countee Cullen, one of the finest American poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
As a young boy, he won a citywide poetry contest and saw his words in print.
At New York University, he won the Witter Byner Poetry Prize and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
His first collection, Color, was published in 1925, the same year he received his B.A. and started Harvard. He received his M.A. the following year.
In 1928, he went to France to study on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
"Harlem Wine"
"Brown Boy to Brown Girl (Remembrance on a Hill) (For Yolanda)"
Written in 1924, he married Yolanda Du Bois in 1928, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois.
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