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Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes
• Countee Cullen
• Robert Hayden

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Langston Hughes

• Assistant cook, launderer, busboy? After holding
  various odd jobs, this famous poet traveled to
  Africa and Europe working as a seaman, when
  finally in November 1924, he moved to Washington,
  D.C, and published his first poetry book, The
  Weary Blues in 1926.
• Click here for his Bibliography

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Countee Cullen

• Born in New York City, like Hughes, Countee
  Cullen was the author of Color and Copper Son
  (1927), which met with controversy in the black
  community because Cullen did not give the
  subject of race the same attention he had given
  it in Color. click here for more info.

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Robert Hayden

• Hayden's poetry gained international recognition
  in the 1960s and he was awarded the grand prize
  for poetry at the First World Festival of Negro
  Arts in 1966 for his book Ballad of Remembrance.
• In 1976, he became the first black American to
  be appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the
  Library of Congress click here for more details