Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes ... After giving a poetry reading at Fisk University in Nashville, Hughes journeyed by ...

Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this day. Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his ...

The family gave copies of these letters to Yale after Julio’s death, at which point I had already completed the research for The Worlds of Langston Hughes there. Hughes uses such spaces quite often in ...

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And they curated the just-released “Blues in Stereo,” a collection of the early poems of the great Langston Hughes a leader ... life and death and time. All the big things.