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

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 ... are things he carried with him into adulthood and the Harlem Renaissance.” ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston ... Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913. As an adult, he wrote 16 books of ...