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Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man ... s status and led him to become one of the pioneers of the Harlem ...
FOR THE last two, extraordinarily prolific decades of his life, Langston Hughes ... two-volume biography of the Harlem Renaissance writer. Now, four decades after Hughes last drew inspiration ...
The long-time home of influential Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes is now open ... and local poets reciting verses of Hughes’s poetry. Constructed in 1869, the Italianate-style home ...
Founded in 1994, the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading shares the work and wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance poet with the Providence community. The event brings together artists and community ...
This poem by Langston Hughes was discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It was scrawled in the pages of a book called “An Anthology of ...
And Smith curated the just-released “Blues in Stereo,” a collection of the early poems of the great Langston Hughes, a leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance of writers and artists.
During college, he met Langston Hughes and began a friendship ... Mitchell and Davis aim to restore the poet to a central position among Harlem Renaissance writers. Mitchell likens their project ...
A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem ... visit from Langston Hughes likewise inspired her poetic ...
The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body ...