To get you started, we’re focusing on 10 of the most powerful Langston Hughes poems. Consider this your introduction to the incredible potency of the celebrated poet’s words and their rhythms.

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 ...

Langston Hughes' birthplace can't forget him — and neither should we. ... like so many of Hughes' poems, "Dream Dust" gathers the stuff — both elemental and mythic — that composes our dreams ...

These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to the celebrated poet's impressive body ... When an 18-year-old Hughes visited and told him of his dream of being a writer, ...

The Sweet and Sour Journey of Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown Through July 24 at ARTneo, 1305 West 80th Street, Suite 016, Cleveland, (216) 227-9507; clevelandart.org .

Minneapolis’ Danez Smith looks to Langston Hughes and Andre 3000 in trying to write one great poem Local poetry: Smith will discuss their collection “Bluff” and a new compilation of Hughes ...

Ormond Beach playwright Joe Cavanaugh reads a Langston Hughes poem that's part of his "Keepers of the Dream" play to debut during Black History Month ...

'Dream Dust' Exquisite and deceptively deep, like so many of Hughes' poems, "Dream Dust" gathers the stuff — both elemental and mythic — that composes our dreams, before delivering a necessary ...

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 ...