His prose and poetry were the formal spaces ... to the new collection of Hughes’ correspondence, “Selected Letters of Langston Hughes,” co-edited with David Roessel with Christa Fratantoro.

Langston Hughes was called “the original jazz poet” by novelist and Fisk University librarian Arna Bontemps. The title is well deserved. Best known for his evocative poetry that gave voice to ...

“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

Writing about Hughes’s “Selected Poems” in the Times in 1959 ... Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed all over again by his genuine gifts—and depressed that he has done so ...

the perfect companion”, Henri Cartier-Bresson told Langston Hughes’s biographer, Arnold Rampersad, in 1981. As footloose young bohemians, the French photographer and the young black poet had ...

Portrait of Langston Hughes ... in his work, Hughes asked Lawrence—who defined our image of the Great Migration in his work—to illustrate his 1949 collection of poetry on the topic, One ...

In a letter to a friend, the poet Countee Cullen ... four decades of his epic literary life in The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. The letters from the 1920s and ’30s fascinate as they ...

‘I think my métier is protesting against something,” Langston Hughes wrote to a friend in California in October 1934. He was 32, had already taken a central role in the Harlem Renaissance and ...