PagineCountee Cullen published his first book, Color (1925), while still a student at New York University, and became one of the leading poets of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote formal, musical verse, often sonnets, about faith, race and beauty, and later taught in New York City schools.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. Countee Cullen’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 3 of them here or as a flip book.
Color (1925), Copper Sun (1927).