Poetry in America. Harlem by Langston Hughes. 4/12/2018 | 25m 26s Video has Closed Captions | CC “What happens to a dream deferred?” Langston Hughes’s question calls President Bill Clinton ...

The poem remains by far the most famous work by Cuney (1906–1976), who had deep family roots in Texas and began writing during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.

The Poetry of the Edge Harlem. It feels like a place the young Langston Hughes—whose image hangs on the wall—would like, full of verse and the murmur of hours well spent.

“I will be walking down Lenox Avenue until the day I die. I feel the spirits and souls of those who were here before I was born.” ...

In the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks a critical question about our lives. We all have dreams, ambitions and goals to achieve. But what happens to a dream deferred? While Hughes may have asked ...

The love poem, written on Spencer’s copy of “Dreer’s Garden Book,” celebrates her joy of being able to love, even if she can do little else. “She was often criticized for not being political, for ...

In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was buzzing with the roaring sounds of jazz, the chatter of new ideas, and new rhythms of poetry. The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of ...

Langston Hughes (1901–67) was a poetic innovator and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays and children’s books, he sought to honestly depict ...

NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.

This Lynchburg poet’s home served as an outpost of the Harlem Renaissance Anne Spencer’s house and garden illuminate her inspirations, and the regard of the influential figures who visited.