Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and ...

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, ...

This poem by Langston Hughes was discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It was scrawled in the pages of a book called “An Anthology of Revolutionary ...

The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was a complicated ...

But that day’s gone now. A few lines later, Hughes had this to say: Depending on what one’s take is on Langston Hughes and the famous Black poet, journalist and author’s relationship to Christianity, ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith’s collection of poems, “Bluff,” was published by Graywolf Press earlier ...