Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this ...

In the summer of 1927, Hughes lit out for the American South to learn more about the region that loomed large in his literary imagination. After giving a poetry ... Zora and Langston as “one ...

“Every place in Lawrence that Langston ... Low set out to write the book after the Academy of American Poets this year named Lawrence a national poetry landmark, in honor of Hughes’ childhood ...