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3 days ago · American poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist Langston Hughes contributed to the flourishing literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Through his poems, stories, and essays, Hughes became known for his authentic portrayal of Black American life.
5 days ago · Alan Szalwinski/Flickr. Amanda Holmes reads Langston Hughes’s “ Daybreak in Alabama .”. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
Jun 26, 2024 · Scottsboro limited; four poems and a play in verse by Langston Hughes; with illustrations by Prentiss Taylor. Creator Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-Contributor
4 days ago · Langston Hughes uses two symbols in the poem, “As I Grew Older”, with his imagery of a sun that represents his dreams and a wall that keeps him from obtaining them. The sun in the poem ...
5 days ago · I want my freedom. Just as you. Langston Hughes, born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1901, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist who was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Visit the Poetry Foundation to learn more about his work and life.
6 days ago · Both explored characters of mixed racial heritage who struggled to define their racial identity in a world of prejudice and racism. Langston Hughes addressed similar themes in his poem "Cross," and in his 1931 play, Mulatto, as did Jessie Fauset in her 1929 novel, Plum Bun.
4 days ago · 12 All of the Hughes poems mentioned here are in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited Arnold Rampersad (New York: Knopf, 1994). McKay’s poems are available in Call and Response , pp. 883-885 and Selected Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harvest, 1953).
