10 Powerful Langston Hughes Poems Everyone Needs to Read
Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this ...
The Harvard Crimson7y
Hughes' I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet
In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...
Lawrence Journal-World21y
Lawrence poet Hughes weathered ’50s hysteria
Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the House ... Pressed to explain the context of the poems, Hughes described much of his childhood and young adulthood. In Lawrence, Hughes said ...
The New Yorker21d
Columbia’s Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes
In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to his class: Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak.
The Washington Informer7d
Saxophonist Langston Hughes II Continues to Soar in His Jazz Career
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‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ spreads its storytelling too widely
Inspired by the Langston Hughes poem “Luck,” Lynn Nottage’s “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” elevates a coming-of-age story ...
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UM to host MLK community lecture with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
The University of Montana will host a community lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Afro29d
A soul-stirring celebration: ArtsCentric’s ‘Black Nativity’ reimagines Langston Hughes’ classic at Baltimore Center Stage
Baltimore theatergoers gathered at Baltimore Center Stage recently for a dazzling and heartfelt production of Langston Hughes’ “Black ... it with gospel music, poetry and the spirit of an ...