Countee Cullen was born Countee Leroy Porter on May 30,1903 in Louisville Kentucky and later raised by his grandmother in New York City. After her death in 1918 when Cullen was 15 Reverend Frederick Cullen and Carolyn Cullen unofficially adopted him. The Reverend lived in Harlem, New York where he was the minister of Salem M.L. Church one of the biggest congregations of Harlem. The Reverend Cullen had helped formed the National Urban League and served as president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (Goetz 780)

Cullen’s biological mother never tried to contact him until he became famous in the 1920’s.while in school he won a citywide poetry contest and then saw his stanzas widely reprinted. He later won sev

Countee Cullen and many of the other artists during the Harlem Renaissance differed because he thought of art as raceless and universal. While most others believed that race was not portrayed through their form of artistic expression. Although Cullen did differ with so many artists he did however kind of think of John Keats as a mentor. Cullen’s differences caused people to respect the fact that he chose not to express race through his poetry. (Goetz 780)

The Harlem Renaissance began in 1925 and ended in1935.The Harlem Renaissance was once reffered to as the “Negro Renaissance”. It began like all other movements in this time period because of financial and educational problems.During this postwar ease many black writers tried to involve the younger generations .The movement was centered in the ghetto of Harlem, in New York City. Like other parts of New York, Harlem was a urban community, where rural farmworkers, black professionals, musicians, and hustlers, strolled along Seventh Avenue. A fresh generation of writers emerged, although a few were born in Harlem. The movement was accelerated by grants and scholarships and supported by such white writers as Carl Van Vechten. The most gifted gravitated to center of black population to the north of 125th street in upper Manhattan that gave it the name The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem’s nightlife attracted many whites and the black culture began to receive critical attention from white intellectuals that cause the Harlem Renaissance to become better known than any other movement. (‘Harlem Renaissance’ 2)

When he finally returned to New York City he began teaching in the public school system. During this time he was able to produce a novel, One Way to Heaven, which was produced in 1932 and two years later there was The Medea and several other poems. Cullen believed that in order to be a great poet you had to master and accept standard poetic forms, tropes, and meters Americans inherited from European traditions. (Estell

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