10 Powerful Langston Hughes Poems Everyone Needs to Read

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and ...
Citizen's Voice

Langston Hughes’ poetry lives on through multimedia jazz performance

Jazz trumpeter Ron McCurdy picked up where poet Langston Hughes left off. A former professor at University of Minnesota, McCurdy created an educational, multimedia piece for a Harlem ...
Princeton University

Princeton conference celebrates Langston Hughes, poet and 'champion of black America'

During a conference Nov. 10-11 at Princeton University, scholars, students, poets and fans from across the country celebrated the life and legacy of Langston Hughes to mark the 50th anniversary of his ...
The Brown Daily Herald

‘A labor of love:’ Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading celebrates poet, nurtures connection through performance

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 ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Time Warp, 1943: Langston Hughes reads poems, speaks about Black life at Century Club

Nov. 23, 1943: Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people ...
AOL

Joplin-born Langston Hughes is a Missouri treasure. These 7 poems outline his greatness

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, born ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race

The voice of Langston Hughes was the voice of black America. He knew rivers “ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” He wondered if deferred dreams “dry up like a ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: Langston Hughes' Poetry Comes Alive at Metrostage

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Thomas W. Jones II directs this outstanding ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Langston Hughes' poetry still sings in 'The Weary Blues'

Langston Hughes was first published during the glory years of the Harlem Renaissance. “The Weary Blues” (Knopf, $26), was his first book of poetry published in 1926. It is being reissued this month ...
JSTOR Daily

Langston Hughes—Our Poet Supreme

The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100: Part Two (2021), pp. 224-230 (7 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...
The New York Times

Langston Hughes

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...