My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro ...

“Kids Who Die” stands among Langston Hughes’ most emotionally potent and politically courageous poems, yet its place in popular literary discourse remains surprisingly muted. The poem does ...

but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical journey, describes Hughes' travellings from 1930 to 1937.

Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the ... By the time of the McCarthy testimony, the most prolific period of Hughes’ career had passed. But the hearings, and his break with the ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes ... After giving a poetry reading at Fisk University in Nashville, Hughes journeyed by ...

American Experience is thrilled to feature award-winning poet Jericho Brown as the voice of Langston Hughes. Illustrations by Jonell Joshua.

Dang. Why don’t more Americans know Langston and Zora? Tsk. Everyone respects them as venerable writers but it really is so much fun to read their short stories, articles and poetry. Each astute ...