One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in 1921 in The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the ...

I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes ...

This month, as we honor National Poetry Month, I wanted to shine a light on some of those lesser-known poems.They may not be the ones quoted at rallies or printed on posters, but they hit just as ...

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 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 ...

One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes attended Lincoln University from 1926 ...

Langston Hughes wasn’t just a famous Black poet, ... Hughes’s poems are still appearing in the media today. Langston Hughes’s work continues to inspire artists in all kinds of media today.

It included perhaps his most famous poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which Hughes wrote when he was 17. Hughes graduated from Lincoln University, a historically Black college in ...

In 1936, the writer Langston Hughes and the artist Elmer W. Brown — two Black men, one famous and the other not — wanted to publish a book. Hughes was already an acclaimed figure of the Harlem ...

The Poetry Reading’s founding in 1995 was preceded by the creation of the now-closed Langston Hughes Center for The Arts and Education, according to April Brown, co-director of the Poetry Reading. The ...

Langston Hughes is best known for writing powerful poetry and prose. Less known is that he was also a librettist. At a 1957 visit to the University of Illinois, he gave a poetry reading and ...