These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body of work. Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time.

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

When the New York Times dubbed East Harlem the last "good deal" in Manhattan ... It opens with a Hughes poem. Authors and artists sit on the steps of Langston Hughes' home. They are part of ...

(While “The Selected Letters” is a good place to start ... end up looking like Langston. A bright, genial boy, Hughes also suffered for his talents. From his poem “Genius Child”: Kill ...

1, 2015 would have been the 113th birthday of Langston Hughes, the African-American jazz poet and social activist ... an’ them what’s good an’ them what’s evil – ‘cause love ain ...

The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

A generation later, Langston Hughes became Williams’s literary equivalent ... Hughes strove to be (in Alfred Kazin’s characterization of the Good Gray Poet) “the poet of the people and to act the poet ...

Founded in 1994, the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading shares the work and wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance poet with the Providence community. The event brings together artists and community ...

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami and the Jim Crow era. Tom Dolphens illustration. Tom Dolphens Star file illustration I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about ...