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

As luck would have it, our reading for the next week was The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, an anthology assembled by Hughes himself in the late 1950s and still in print today. I had asked ...

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 ...

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 ...