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 ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

To balance the state budget on the backs of students is to defer dreams—and as poet Langston Hughes asked, what happens to a ...

However, while Easter brings the message of joy, love, and resurrection, it doesn’t erase the feelings of sorrow, hopelessness, and loss that many carry.

British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien has spent over two decades pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling, ...

Lines not universally admired for their celebration of feathered fascism, but which Hughes ... a dream in which something archetypal came to him in the shape of a fox-man who pressed the hot, stinking ...

The triple threat Venn Diagram bubbles of race, class, and social identity have conspired to define us as a nation since our founding. As we sit on the eve of our Bisesquicentennial in 2026, Americans ...

Writing Seminars chair Eric Puchner talks with a former advisee about why 'dark books' resonate with readers like Oprah ...

People in the front row joined hands and began swaying, says Drew Hansen, author of a new book, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation. King was a "poet who could ...

The prisoned music of her deathless roses. Leans the warped and clotted plow. The moon rolls up, while far away And thin with sorrow, the sheepdog’s bay Fills the valley with lonely sound. Slow ...