Countee Porter Cullen (1903-1946)
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Biography

Countee Cullen Biography; picture; bibliography
Countee Cullen Brief biography
Monument to Countee Cullen Information; large graphic file of monument now displayed at the New York Public Library
Countee Cullen From American Academy of Poets. Biography, selected bibliography
Countee Cullen Biography

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Bibliography

Countee Cullen. Bibliography
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Bibliography

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E-Texts

Incident Full text of the poem
Poems from the Planet Earth. Countee Cullen Full text of Any Human to Another, From the Dark Tower, If You Should Go, Incident, Tableau
For a Lady I Know Text of the poem
Heritage Full text of poem from American Academy of Poets. Hear the author read his work
The Shroud of Color Text of the poem from the American Academy of Poets
Yet Do I Marvel Full text from American Academy of Poets
Creative Quotations from Countee Cullen Five quotations. cFrankline Baer
Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Text of: "For a Lady I Know", "For a Poet", "From the Dark Tower", "Fruit of the Flower", "Heritage", "Incident", "The Loss of Love", "Saturday's Child", "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks", "That Bright Chemeric Beast", "Yet Do I Marvel", "Youth Sings a Song of RoseBuds", "The Wise"

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Countee Cullen

Texts include "Incident," "From the Dark Tower," "To Certain Critics"

Lesson Plans

Character Portrayal in Reading and Writing Poetry
By Marie P. Casey. Junior High unit plan, basic & advanced. From Yale-New Haven Lesson Plans
African-American Poets Past and Present: A Historical View
By Joyce Patton. Language arts, Black history, grades 2-5. From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
In Search of Afro-American Poets in Modern Times
By Cynthia H. Roberts. Special education learning disabled class grades 9-12. From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Images of Black Women in Drama
By Belinda Carberry. grades 11 & 12. From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Dark Voices from Unmarked Graves
Unit plan by Robert Johnson Moore. Afro-American literature; grades 10 - 11. From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Seeing with the Heart; Poetry in the Classroom
English, grades 7 and 8; By Lorna Dils; From Yale-New Haven
In Search of Afro-American Poets in Modern Times
Special education, grades 9 to 12; by Cynthia H. Roberts; From Yale-New Haven

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ERIC Resources

Creative Writing as a Teaching Tool
Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature
Growing Up as a Minority in America: Four African-American Writers' Testimony

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