Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no ...

Analysis: The mother’s advice to her son, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems ...

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 ...

"Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving ... but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes ... Called upon to defend his art and life amid the anticommunist hysteria of the McCarthy era, Hughes told of his Lawrence childhood ...

There is an excellent finding aid for the latter. As far as I know, the most recent translation of Hughes’s poems into Spanish, for instance, is still Maribel Cruzado’s Langston Hughes: Blues ...

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage Classics ... cultural and intellectual life: reaction to World War I, which dealt a devastating blow to Western pretensions of progress and ...