10 Powerful Langston Hughes Poems Everyone Needs to Read
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Langston Hughes on Trial
American Experience is thrilled to feature award-winning poet Jericho Brown as the voice of Langston Hughes. Illustrations by Jonell Joshua.