Countee cullen achievements of gloria jean

Countee Cullen born Countee LeRoy Porter ; May 30, — January 9, was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. Reverend Frederick A. Cullen , pastor of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church , Harlem's largest congregation, and his wife, the former Carolyn Belle Mitchell, adopted the year-old Countee Porter, although the adoption may not have been official.

He won a citywide poetry contest. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

Countee cullen achievements of gloria jean: His prize-winning poem “I Have

The ensuing year, he again placed second in the contest, finally winning first prize in That same year, Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a master's in English, and published Color , his first collection of poems that later became a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. The volume included "Heritage" and " Incident ", probably his most famous poems.

The poet accepts that there is God, and "God is good, well-meaning, kind", but he finds a contradiction in his own plight in a racist society: he is black and a poet. The appointment led to Harper's inviting him to edit an anthology of Black poetry in