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Countee Cullen He was born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in New York and began writing poetry at the age of fourteen. In 1922, Cullen entered New York University.He was raised in a predominantly white community and unlike Hughes he did not want to be known as a 'black poet' but a poet. even though he made this distinction, he still wrote some poems such as 'incidence' and 'heritage' that made reference to his race and his struggle with it.