Countee Cullen Poems

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/countee-cullen

Cullen is self-consciously forging an identity as an African-American poet.  To what extent does he “play by the rules” of Western poetry at the time?
To what extent does he innovate?

Countee Cullen, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941

Carl Van Vechten Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress