Analysis: Hughes’s poem is a powerful assertion of black identity and equality.The narrator proclaims, “I, too, sing America,” insisting on his rightful place in the American fabric. The ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes Quotes And Poems: ... A curator displays a copy of the book Famous Negro Music Makers, written and signed by Langston Hughes, in Harlem, New York, May. 17, 2016.

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 1995. Edited by Richard Howard and David Lehman. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. $13. This annual series, now in its eighth year, is ample proof that poetry is thriving.… ...

Last summer I attended a conference with the Ford Scholars on the Oregon coast. The scholarship program, founded by the Ford Family Foundation headquartered in Roseburg, assists hundreds of Oregon ...

On being inspired by Langston Hughes. I grew up knowing about Langston Hughes. I think when I was about 16 or 17 my dad bought me a book of his poetry and actually wrote me a poem in the front of ...

Poem: I look at the world. A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Staten Island OutLOUD, a community dialogue and performance project, presents 'I've Known Rivers', poems by Langston Hughes on Saturday, May 8 at 12:30 pm. Participants will have a chance to read ...