The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows ... Langston Hughes ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Famous black poets who wrote poems about black ... and artistic life in various American cities, particularly Harlem. Hughes was a major poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and playwright.