Most people know him through his famous works—the ones we all ... This brief but striking poem exemplifies Langston Hughes’ ability to blend the sacred with the socially urgent.

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 ...

While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes ... named Lawrence a national poetry landmark, in honor of Hughes’ childhood years here.