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=**Waring Cuney**=
 * by Jordan Burns**

William Waring Cuney was a black born in Washington DC May 6, 1906. He was born into a prominent family and grew up studying to become a professional singer. He attended public schools and eventually enrolled at Howard University, an all black school with a white faculty. (Margaret). One day while riding a bus car he met Langston Hughes, one of the most prominent black authors through the entire Harlem Renaissance. Cuney convinced Langston to attend Lincoln University where they both met other black artists. He continued to study music but became a proffesional poet during the first few years of the Harlem Renaissance.

His career in poetry went well with the publishing of No Images, his most famous work. Even with this success he went back to his backround of music. He worked with other black artists to create songs such as "Hard Time Blues". In these works Cuney expressed himself by writing political statements in the lyrics not just the imagery of his works. =﻿Poetry Analysis=

=No Images= She does not know her beauty, she thinks her brown body has no glory. If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dish water gives back no images.

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