[DOC] [TLE] Langston Hughes Langston Hughes [PAR] He wrote about common people in ordinary jobs, people who experienced just as 
... his father urged him to go to an international school and learn a more manly 
trade. ... time he already had published The Negro Speaks of Rivers in The 
Crisis, the ... Poet Vachel Lindsay was dining in the restaurant one night and 
Hughes... [DOC] [TLE] Langston Hughes Timeline of Important Dates - Shmoop [PAR] Hughes's parents split up when he is very young, and his father moves to Mexico. 
... On the train to see him, Hughes pens the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers. 
... tables at the Wardman Park Hotel, Hughes notices the poet Vachel Lindsay 
dining ... Hughes's second poetry collection, Fine Clothes to the Jew, is published
. [DOC] [TLE] The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Dictionary definition of The Negro ... [PAR] Written when he was only 19, The Negro Speaks of Rivers treats themes 
Hughes ... In May and August of 1925 Hughes's verse earned him literary prizes 
from both ... of poet Vachel Lindsay by placing three of his poems on Lindsay's 
dinner table. ... By asserting that he has known rivers ancient as the world, the 
speaker... [DOC] [TLE] Selected Poetry Langston Hughes 19021967 [PAR] whom literature had generally ignored. ... grade, when his classmates elected 
him ... The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ... took a job busing tables at a hotel 
restaurant. One day Vachel Lindsay, a well- ... reported Lindsay's discovery of the 
... A year later, Hughes published his first ... Hughes kept his language direct; he 
made. [DOC] [TLE] HarlemRenaissancePoets - Example [PAR] It was during this time that he wrote his first "jazz poem" ("Hughes"), a lively, free 
form, ... He had more interest in the neighborhood of Harlem than school, so he 
left to ... as a "new negro poet" by the poet Vachel Lindsay, who helped him get 
published. ... The poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," became his signature 
piece. [DOC] [TLE] Langston Hughes - Research Paper [PAR] By the time he was fourteen, he had lived in Joplin; Buffalo; Cleveland; ... as Paul 
Laurence Dunbar, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, and Carl Sandburg. ... he 
wrote the poem "the Negro Speaks of Rivers", which was published in the ... and 
the story of his "discovery" (he was unaware that Hughes had already published
... [DOC] [TLE] langston huges, Poet - CollegeTermPapers.com [PAR] He won prizes in poetry contests sponsored by the black journals ... where, while 
serving the poet Vachel Lindsay and his wife at dinner, he left several of his ... 
and the story of his "discovery" (he was unaware that Hughes had already 
published ... Langston wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers on his first day on the 
train to... [DOC] [TLE] James Mercer Langston Hughes - Essay Sample - QuestEssay [PAR] At the age of fourteen, he had already lived in Joplin, Buffalo, Cleveland, 
Lawrence, ... discrimination and introduced him to the leftist political ideas (
Rampersad). ... he wrote the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which was 
available in the ... poet Vachel Lindsay at dinner, he left several of his own poems 
on the table. [DOC] [TLE] Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys and Poets, is 'democracy's ... [PAR] Oct 26, 2011 ... And it's the International Day of Peace, so Shallal has everyone fill out ... a sheaf 
of poems to a white guest, poet Vachel Lindsay, who hailed the young man's 
talent. ... In five years, he opened three more Busboys: in Shirlington, at Fifth and 
... rivers of Langston Hughes's poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers. [DOC] [TLE] 2011 Commemorative Book - Hawaii Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition [PAR] not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. .... 
Themistocles Hoetis and which had already published essays by Richard ..... 
Impressed with the poems Hughes showed him, Lindsay publicized his discovery 
of

Question: He had already published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" when Vachel Lindsay discovered him busing tables
Answer: Langston Hughes