with a kickoff celebration at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Corona. Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott, New York Public Library President and ...

In 1932, Langston ... as has Hughes's book about them, A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, published in Moscow in 1935. But Hughes's journals and the Uzbek poems about his visit have never ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...