Described by Yuval Taylor in his new book Zora and Langston as “one of the ... a volume “of great importance to the Negro peoples.” Hughes titled these three typewritten pages “Foreword ...

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921 ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (New York: Harper & Row, 1941). It is reprinted in Arnold Rampersad, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage ...

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. 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 ...