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Countee Cullen
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Let art portray things as they are.

Countee Cullen, The Dark Tower

Born this day in 1903, Countee Cullen was one of the finest American poets of the Harlem Renaissance, noted for his fresh and sensitive treatment of racial themes and for the lyric, wistful beauty of his verse.

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