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, ...

Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people would never see ...

During a conference Nov. 10-11 at Princeton University, scholars, students, poets and fans from across the country celebrated the life and legacy of Langston Hughes to mark the 50th anniversary of his ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born ...

The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100: Part Two (2021), pp. 224-230 (7 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...

The voice of Langston Hughes was the voice of black America. He knew rivers “ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” He wondered if deferred dreams “dry up like a ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...

Nov. 23, 1943: Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people ...