James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, war journalist, leader of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the early innovators of the literary ...
His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...
The 29th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading at the Providence Public Library featured poetry focused on his life as a global poet.
Weary blues (1926) / Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset -- Fine clothes to the Jew (1927) / DuBose Heyward, Margaret Larkin -- Not without laughter (1930) / V.F. Calverton, Sterling A. Brown -- Ways of ...
Daron P. Stewart performed as Langston Hughes on Feb. 3 at the Lexington Park Library. Stewart combined acting and Hughes' poetry to educate the audience on Hughes' life and role in the Harlem ...
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Black Ensemble Theater’s world premiere production of “My Brother Langston” tells the story of Harlem Renaissance luminary Langston Hughes through poetry, music and autobiographical narration, with ...
The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska. By Hannah Edgar Shanghai straddles the past and the ...
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