query: what inspired langston hughes to write poetry?

title: I, Too (Langston Hughes poem)

text: the kitchen whenever company arrives. Hughes ties together the sense of the unity that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln spoke about regarding the separate and diverse parts of the American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom) "by beginning his poem with a near direct reference to Walt Whitman." I, Too (Langston Hughes poem) 'I, Too' is a poem written by Langston Hughes that demonstrates a yearning for equality through perseverance while disproving the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in 1926, and published in "The Weary Blues". This poem, along with other works by Hughes,

title: Langston Hughes

text: and parts of the Caribbean, he lived in Harlem as his primary home for the remainder of his life. During the 1930s, he became a resident of Westfield, New Jersey for a time, sponsored by his patron Charlotte Osgood Mason. Some academics and biographers believe that Hughes was homosexual and included homosexual codes in many of his poems, as did Walt Whitman, whom Hughes said influenced his poetry. Hughes's story "Blessed Assurance" deals with a father's anger over his son's effeminacy and "queerness". The biographer Aldrich argues that, in order to retain the respect and support of black churches and

title: Beltway Poetry Quarterly

text: issue, and several issues have been compiled by guest editors. Every other year, Beltway Poetry publishes a special literary history issue, with tributes, interviews, and essays on influential poets who have lived or worked in Washington, DC. Poets in history issues range from contemporary authors to poets living in the city in its early years. They include: Ambrose Bierce, Sterling A. Brown, Ed Cox, Leon-Gontran Damas, Owen Dodson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Roland Flint, Angelina Weld Grimké, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Gaston Neal, Ezra Pound, Reetika Vazirani, and Walt Whitman. Beltway Poetry Quarterly Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an

title: Langston Hughes

text: Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". Like many African Americans, Hughes had

title: Langston Hughes

text: Mary's daughter Caroline was the mother of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes (1871–1934). Langston Hughes grew up in a series of Midwestern small towns. Hughes' father left his family soon after the boy was born and later divorced Carrie. The senior Hughes traveled to Cuba and then Mexico, seeking to escape the enduring racism in the United States. After the separation, his mother traveled, seeking employment, and young Langston Hughes was raised mainly in Lawrence, Kansas, by his maternal grandmother, Mary Patterson

title: Langston Hughes, Baltimore

text: Hospital. Langston Hughes, Baltimore Langston Hughes is a neighborhood in the Northwest District of Baltimore, located between the neighborhoods of Central Park Heights (east) and Woodmere. Its roughly pentagonal boundaries are marked by West Belvedere Avenue (northwest), Litchfield Avenue (northeast), Reisterstown Road (south) and Oakmont Avenue (east). A predominantly black community, the neighborhood of Langston Hughes is named for the black poet and novelist, Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes Elementary School, located within the neighborhood at 5011 Arbutus Avenue, also bears the poet's name. The population of Langston Hughes was estimated at 1,132 in 2009. Its median household income for that

title: Langston Hughes, Baltimore

text: Langston Hughes, Baltimore Langston Hughes is a neighborhood in the Northwest District of Baltimore, located between the neighborhoods of Central Park Heights (east) and Woodmere. Its roughly pentagonal boundaries are marked by West Belvedere Avenue (northwest), Litchfield Avenue (northeast), Reisterstown Road (south) and Oakmont Avenue (east). A predominantly black community, the neighborhood of Langston Hughes is named for the black poet and novelist, Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes Elementary School, located within the neighborhood at 5011 Arbutus Avenue, also bears the poet's name. The population of Langston Hughes was estimated at 1,132 in 2009. Its median household income for that year

title: Langston Hughes

text: Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, and tells the story of how their friendship fell apart during their collaboration on the play "Mule Bone". On September 22, 2016, his poem "I, Too" was printed on a full page of the "New York Times" in response to the riots of the previous day in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University holds the Langston Hughes papers (1862–1980) and the Langston Hughes collection (1924–1969) containing letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of Hughes. The Langston Hughes Memorial Library on the

title: I, Too (Langston Hughes poem)

text: I, Too (Langston Hughes poem) 'I, Too' is a poem written by Langston Hughes that demonstrates a yearning for equality through perseverance while disproving the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in 1926, and published in "The Weary Blues". This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and 30s of newfound cultural identity for blacks in America who had discovered the power of literature, art, music, and poetry as a means of personal and collective expression in the scope of civil rights. I, too,

title: Langston Hughes

text: composed music by Laura Karpman at Carnegie Hall, at the "Honor" festival curated by Jessye Norman in celebration of the African-American cultural legacy. "Ask Your Mama" is the centerpiece of "The Langston Hughes Project", a multimedia concert performance directed by Ron McCurdy, professor of music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. The European premiere of The Langston Hughes Project, featuring Ice-T and McCurdy, took place at the Barbican Centre, London, on November 21, 2015, as part of the London Jazz Festival. The novel "Harlem Mosaics" (2012) by Whit Frazier depicts the friendship between Langston

title: Langston Hughes

text: I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everyone knows, except us, that all Negroes have rhythm, so they elected me as class poet. During high school in Cleveland, Hughes wrote for the school newspaper, edited the yearbook, and began to write his first short stories, poetry, and dramatic plays. His first piece of jazz poetry, "When Sue Wears Red," was written while he was in high school. Hughes had a very poor relationship with

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: of seminal works in African-American literature are being collected. Internet-based access Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) databases is available for academic research. The Langston Hughes Library's patrons include activists, students, tourists, dignitaries, scholars. Class visits are held, festivals are hosted and retreats are accommodated at the Haley Farm. Events such as the Langston Hughes Library Roundtable, Langston Hughes Children's Literature Festival and African American Read-In are regularly held at the Haley Farm. Khafre Abif, currently at the Cleveland Public Library, was the first director of the library. He expressed his desire to reach children directly as his impetus to seek his

title: Langston Hughes

text: campus of Lincoln University, as well as at the James Weldon Johnson Collection within the Yale University also hold archives of Hughes' work. The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University includes materials acquired from his travels and contacts through the work of Dorothy B. Porter. Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called

title: Langston Hughes High School

text: Langston Hughes High School Langston Hughes High School (LHHS) is a public secondary school located in Fairburn, Georgia, United States, a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta. LHHS is a high school in South Fulton County. It is adjacent to Renaissance Elementary and Renaissance Middle School. It was completed in May 2009, and opened its doors in August to educate students in the southern portion of the Fulton County School System. Built to meet the needs of a rapidly growing community, this state-of-the-art facility serves grades 9-12 with an enrollment of 2600. The school was named after Langston Hughes, in keeping with

title: Langston Hughes

text: has been portrayed in film and stage productions since the late 20th century. In "Looking for Langston" (1989), British filmmaker Isaac Julien claimed him as a black gay icon — Julien thought that Hughes' sexuality had historically been ignored or downplayed. Film portrayals of Hughes include Gary LeRoi Gray's role as a teenage Hughes in the short subject film "Salvation" (2003) (based on a portion of his autobiography "The Big Sea"), and Daniel Sunjata as Hughes in the "Brother to Brother" (2004). "Hughes' Dream Harlem", a documentary by Jamal Joseph, examines Hughes' works and environment. "Paper Armor" (1999) by Eisa

title: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

text: after several accusations that she had "made racially offensive and intimidating comments to and about her Asian-American colleagues". She was reinstated at the beginning of March 2008, after a "public outcry." Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI) is an arts venue in Seattle, Washington, USA, operated by City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and named after African-American writer Langston Hughes. The building has Seattle landmark status. Dating from 1915, it was originally a synagogue, designed by B. Marcus Priteca for the Orthodox Jewish congregation Chevra Bikur Cholim, now Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath. As

title: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

text: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI) is an arts venue in Seattle, Washington, USA, operated by City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and named after African-American writer Langston Hughes. The building has Seattle landmark status. Dating from 1915, it was originally a synagogue, designed by B. Marcus Priteca for the Orthodox Jewish congregation Chevra Bikur Cholim, now Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath. As of 2009, it will soon undergo a US$2.5 million upgrade, including its second round of seismic retrofitting. The main auditorium has a seating capacity of 288. A activity hall downstairs can

title: Langston Hughes High School

text: the Renaissance theme of South Fulton. Hughes was an influential poet and author whose literary work helped create an innovative way of expression during the Harlem Renaissance period. His work continues to promote excellence in academic growth and social development. Fall sports Winter sports Spring sports Langston Hughes High School Langston Hughes High School (LHHS) is a public secondary school located in Fairburn, Georgia, United States, a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta. LHHS is a high school in South Fulton County. It is adjacent to Renaissance Elementary and Renaissance Middle School. It was completed in May 2009, and opened its doors

title: Langston Hughes

text: Davis and "Hannibal of the Alps" (2005) by Michael Dinwiddie are plays by African-American playwrights that address Hughes's sexuality. Spike Lee's 1996 film "Get on the Bus", included a black gay character, played by Isaiah Washington, who invokes the name of Hughes and punches a homophobic character, saying, "This is for James Baldwin and Langston Hughes." Hughes was also featured prominently in a national campaign sponsored by the Center for Inquiry (CFI) known as African Americans for Humanism. Hughes' "Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz", written in 1960, was performed for the first time in March 2009 with specially

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: of Witnesses for Social Justice" and an Outward Bound camp. Maya Lin also designed the Riggio-Lynch Chapel located on Haley Farm, built in 2004, making Haley Farm "the only site in the United States with two Maya Lin structures". Langston Hughes Library The Langston Hughes Library is a private non-circulating library designed by Maya Lin, and located on the Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee. It contains a 5,000-volume reference collection focusing on works by African-American authors and illustrators, and books focused on the Black experience. Haley farm was once owned by writer Alex Haley, and was purchased by the Children's

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: Langston Hughes Library The Langston Hughes Library is a private non-circulating library designed by Maya Lin, and located on the Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee. It contains a 5,000-volume reference collection focusing on works by African-American authors and illustrators, and books focused on the Black experience. Haley farm was once owned by writer Alex Haley, and was purchased by the Children's Defense Fund in 1994. It is now run as a retreat center, with training and conference facilities, the Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel, guest cottages, and the library. The farm consists of surrounded by ridges of the Appalachian mountains, and is

title: Langston Hughes

text: looked upon Hughes as a hero and an example to be emulated within their own work. One of these young black writers (Loften Mitchell) observed of Hughes: Langston set a tone, a standard of brotherhood and friendship and cooperation, for all of us to follow. You never got from him, 'I am "the" Negro writer,' but only 'I am "a" Negro writer.' He never stopped thinking about the rest of us. Hughes, like many black writers and artists of his time, was drawn to the promise of Communism as an alternative to a segregated America. Many of his lesser-known political

title: Looking for Langston

text: the United States in 1990, the estate of Langston Hughes initially attempted to have the film censored because of copyright violations: permission allegedly had not been obtained by the filmmakers permitting them to use the poetry of Hughes in the film. During subsequent screenings of "Looking for Langston", the sound was repeatedly turned down when the work of Hughes was read. Despite allegations of censorship from critics at the time of the U.S. premier of the film, the estate had allowed many of Hughes' poems to appear in gay anthologies in the print media and continues to do so until

title: Jazz poetry

text: abhorred the "primitive" sound of jazz music) and Mina Loy wrote poetry in this vein. It was with the advent of the Harlem Renaissance that jazz poetry developed into what it is today. Poets such as Langston Hughes incorporated the syncopated rhythms and repetitive phrases of blues and jazz music into their writing. Many Harlem Renaissance writers were deeply concerned with racial pride and with the creation of purely African-American poetry. Since jazz music was an important part of African-American culture at the time, Hughes and others like him adapted the musical genre to create their own, singularly African-American voices

title: Langston Hughes

text: to find some way of thinking about this whole problem of myself." Following his testimony, Hughes distanced himself from Communism. He was rebuked by some on the Radical Left who had previously supported him. He moved away from overtly political poems and towards more lyric subjects. When selecting his poetry for his "Selected Poems" (1959) he excluded all his radical socialist verse from the 1930s. Hughes was featured reciting his poetry on the album "Weary Blues" (MGM, 1959), with music by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather, and he also contributed lyrics to Randy Weston's "Uhuru Afrika" (Roulette, 1960). Hughes' life

title: National Poetry Month

text: gala at the White House that featured Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, and Rita Dove. For National Poetry Month in 2001, the Academy of American Poets invited people to "vote" for poets they most wanted to have a postage stamp. More than 10,000 people cast ballots, with Langston Hughes receiving the most votes. The vote tally was sent to the United States Postal Service, which issued a Langston Hughes stamp in January 2002. On April 5, 2005 the Empire State Building was illuminated with blue lights to mark the 10th anniversary of National Poetry Month. In 2006, the Academy

title: Langston Hughes

text: new black poet. By this time, Hughes's earlier work had been published in magazines and was about to be collected into his first book of poetry. The following year, Hughes enrolled in Lincoln University, a historically black university in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Thurgood Marshall, who later became an attorney, judge, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was a classmate of Hughes during his undergraduate studies. After Hughes earned a B.A. degree from Lincoln University in 1929, he returned to New York. Except for travels to the Soviet Union

title: John Mercer Langston

text: Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington, DC. Langston was the great-uncle of the poet James Mercer Langston Hughes (called Langston Hughes). The John Mercer Langston House in Oberlin, Ohio, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. The town of Langston, Oklahoma, founded in 1890 as an all-black town, was named for him. The historically black college in the town, founded in 1897 as the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University, was renamed Langston University in honor of John Mercer Langston in 1941. John Mercer Langston Elementary School at 33 P Street NW in Washington, D.C. was named in his honor. It

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: MLS. Abif spoke about children's library services, "this is where it begins, if you do it right at this age you will have library lovers for life and you won't have to convince adults of the power of libraries, they'll already know". He acted as director of the Langston Hughes Library through at least 2002. The building project was partially funded by from Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio and his wife Louise. Ongoing funding for acquisitions and operations are provided by the Children's Defense Fund. Planned improvements to the Haley Farm include "a Walking Path to Commemorate the Cloud

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: A critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer appreciates "the quiet, reductive clarity of her work" and states that Lin "has transformed a barn into a Frank Gehry-like marvel of colored light and air". Alex Ross of Stanford University considers the library a "marvelous example of adaptive re-use." The Children's Defense Fund purpose in building the Langston Hughes Library was to "connects young leaders and activists with the glorious heritage of the struggle for freedom, and is where policy makers and community builders come to connect, recharge their spiritual and physical batteries" and act as a "training ground for the next generation

title: I, Too (Langston Hughes poem)

text: sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America. Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967 In the poem, Hughes describes a ubiquitous racial oppression that degrades African Americans at the time. He writes from the perspective of an inferior servant to a domineering white family that shoos him away to

title: Langston Hughes Library

text: north of Knoxville. The grounds of the farm include streams, a lake, an apple orchard, and a ropes course. The Langston Hughes Library was dedicated on March 19, 1999. The dedication ceremony was attended by such important figures as Maya Angelou, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Franklin, and Toni Morrison. The Children's Defense Fund and its sister organization, the Black Community Crusade for Children, run this library "as an incubator for the CDF's "Leave No Child Behind" movement. The Library is a 1,200 square foot 2-story building with a single reading room upstairs and entryway and a small bookstore in the

title: Langston Hughes

text: joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in West Virginia in 1859 and died from his wounds. In 1869, the widow Mary Patterson Leary married again, into the elite, politically active Langston family. (See The Talented Tenth.) Her second husband was Charles Henry Langston, of African-American, Euro-American and Native American ancestry. He and his younger brother John Mercer Langston worked for the abolitionist cause and helped lead the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in 1858. Charles Langston later moved with his family to Kansas, where he was active as an educator and activist for voting and rights for African Americans. Charles and

title: Langston Hughes

text: and his fellow Blacks were not informed of the reasons for the cancelling, but he and Koestler worked it out for themselves. Hughes also managed to travel to China and Japan before returning to the States. Hughes's poetry was frequently published in the CPUSA newspaper and he was involved in initiatives supported by Communist organizations, such as the drive to free the Scottsboro Boys. Partly as a show of support for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, in 1937 Hughes traveled to Spain as a correspondent for the "Baltimore Afro-American" and other various African-American newspapers. In August 1937,

title: Langston Hughes

text: self-examination was emphasized in the face of European colonialism. In addition to his example in social attitudes, Hughes had an important technical influence by his emphasis on folk and jazz rhythms as the basis of his poetry of racial pride. In 1930, his first novel, "Not Without Laughter", won the Harmon Gold Medal for literature. At a time before widespread arts grants, Hughes gained the support of private patrons and he was supported for two years prior to publishing this novel. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy, whose family must deal with a variety of struggles

title: Langston Hughes

text: he continued writing poetry. Hughes worked at various odd jobs, before serving a brief tenure as a crewman aboard the S.S. "Malone" in 1923, spending six months traveling to West Africa and Europe. In Europe, Hughes left the S.S. "Malone" for a temporary stay in Paris. There he met and had a romance with Anne Marie Coussey, a British-educated African from a well-to-do Gold Coast family; they subsequently corresponded but she eventually married Hugh Wooding, a promising Trinidadian lawyer. Wooding later served as chancellor of the University of the West Indies. During his time in England in the early 1920s,

title: John Mercer Langston

text: when elected as a town clerk in Ohio. John was a great-uncle of the renowned poet Langston Hughes. John Mercer Langston was born free in 1829 in Louisa County, Virginia, the youngest of a daughter and three sons of Lucy Jane Langston, a freedwoman of mixed African and Native American descent, whose tribal heritage may have been with the Pamunkey tribe, and Ralph Quarles, a white planter from England. Quarles had freed Lucy and their daughter Maria in 1806, in the course of what was a relationship of more than 25 years. Their three sons were born free, as their

title: Langston Hughes

text: perspective." Soon thereafter, he was hired to write a column for the "Chicago Defender", in which he presented some of his "most powerful and relevant work", giving voice to black people. The column ran for twenty years. In 1943, Hughes began publishing stories about a character he called Jesse B. Semple, often referred to and spelled "Simple", the everyday black man in Harlem who offered musings on topical issues of the day. Although Hughes seldom responded to requests to teach at colleges, in 1947 he taught at Atlanta University. In 1949, he spent three months at the University of Chicago

title: Looking for Langston

text: figure within American and African-American culture. Throughout this process, the identity of Hughes as a black gay man is reclaimed and no longer denied, a process paralleled in the ever-growing academic studies of Hughes today. Moreover, adding to the historic and cinematic importance of the film in gay cinema, "Looking for Langston" was and continues to be one of very few films showing intra-racial affection between black gay men as revealed in the love story between the two leading black protagonists, Ben Ellison as Langston Hughes and Matthew Baidoo as Beauty. Upon the first release of "Looking for Langston" in

title: Langston Hughes

text: together also to create the short-lived magazine "Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists". Hughes and his contemporaries had different goals and aspirations than the black middle class. Hughes and his fellows tried to depict the "low-life" in their art, that is, the real lives of blacks in the lower social-economic strata. They criticized the divisions and prejudices within the black community based on skin color. Hughes wrote what would be considered their manifesto, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", published in "The Nation" in 1926: The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves

title: Javon Johnson

text: Javon Johnson Javon Johnson is an American spoken word poet, writer, and professor. He is the director of African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of "Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities". Johnson was born and raised in Los Angeles. In high school he read the work of Amiri Baraka and Langston Hughes, which inspired him to write poetry. While in college at California State University, Los Angeles, Johnson won first place in Drama Interpretation at

title: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

text: as well as seismic retrofit improvements; another addition was made to the southwest corner of the auditorium in 2003. The additions to the building have been for office and support spaces, and to provide barrier-free access. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute was founded in 1969, originally under the Model Cities Program. The city purchased the building in 1971, intending it to house the city's first African-American theater, Black Arts/West, and a minority film training center, Oscar Productions. However, the renovations at that time took so long that those organizations found other quarters. Still, the institute became "Ground Zero" for Seattle's

title: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

text: accommodate "almost 300 individuals". Priteca completed his plans for the building in early 1913; the synagogue was dedicated in August 1915. The lower story of the addition on the south side of the building dates from 1961, the upper story from 1971. The building became the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in 1969, originally under the Model Cities Program. It became part of Parks and Recreation in 1972. The interior of the auditorium was renovated in 1971: a balcony area was removed, extending auditorium seating further back. In 1991 an addition was made to the east side of the auditorium,

title: William Langston

text: a malingerer but later admitted to the psychiatric unit with suspected catatonic schizophrenia. During an examination of the patient, Langston noticed his fingers moving, perhaps voluntarily, and wrapped them around a pencil. The patient began to write notes that indicated that his mind was normal but his body was not responding. He had taken heroin before the symptoms developed. Through coincidental personal connections and media presentations another 5 patients suffering the same symptoms were discovered. All had what appeared to be symptoms of advanced Parkinson's Disease. In an attempt to save their lives Dr Langston administered L-dopa, a drug then

title: Poetry Society of America

text: American poets. Beginning in 2003, the Society began sponsoring an annual chapbook contest, awarding four fellowships to poets who have not yet published a full-length poetry collection. These fellowships include: In addition to the Frost Medal and Shelley Award, the Poetry Society gives out the following awards. Poetry Society of America The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned writers as Witter Bynner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne

title: Langston Hughes

text: Langston. Through the black American oral tradition and drawing from the activist experiences of her generation, Mary Langston instilled in her grandson a lasting sense of racial pride. He lived most of his childhood in Lawrence. In his 1940 autobiography "The Big Sea", he wrote: "I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books—where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas."

title: Poetry Society of America

text: Poetry Society of America The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned writers as Witter Bynner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jesse Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry

title: Raymond Langston

text: Raymond Langston Dr. Raymond Langston is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama "", portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. He joined the show in season 9, after the departure of Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen. His last name is taken from Fishburne's son, Langston who was in turn, named after the great African American writer Langston Hughes. He appeared in 59 of the 60 episodes between the middle of season 9 and the end of season 11, the exception being "418/427" from . In June 2011, it was announced that Fishburne did not renew his contract with the show,

title: Charles Henry Langston

text: in Lawrence, Kansas, for the rest of their lives, moving in 1888 into town, where Charles had a part-interest in a grocery store. Their children were Nathaniel Turner Langston, named after the man who led a slave rebellion in Virginia; and Caroline Mercer Langston. She married and had a son, Langston Hughes, who became a renowned poet in the United States. The Langstons also had a foster son, named Dessalines Langston after a major leader of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to his political activities, while in Columbus, Ohio, Langston was president of the Colored Benevolent Society, first Worshipful Master

title: Langston Hughes

text: Laboratory Schools as a visiting lecturer. Between 1942 and 1949, Hughes was a frequent writer and served on the editorial board of "Common Ground", a literary magazine focused on cultural pluralism in the United States published by the Common Council for American Unity (CCAU). He wrote novels, short stories, plays, poetry, operas, essays, and works for children. With the encouragement of his best friend and writer, Arna Bontemps, and patron and friend, Carl Van Vechten, he wrote two volumes of autobiography, "The Big Sea" and "I Wonder as I Wander", as well as translating several works of literature into English.

title: Langston Hughes

text: — official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", which became Hughes's signature poem, was collected in his first book of poetry "The Weary Blues" (1926). Hughes's first and last published poems appeared in "The Crisis"; more of his poems were published in "The Crisis" than in any other journal. Hughes' life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, alongside those of his contemporaries, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Aaron Douglas. Except for McKay, they worked

title: American proletarian poetry movement

text: also part of this legacy. His poetry often focuses on labor in Detroit. American proletarian poetry movement Proletarian poetry is a political poetry movement that developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that expresses the class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. Such poems are either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist, though they are often aesthetically disparate. As a literature that emphasized working-class voices, the poetic form of works range from those emulating African-American slave work songs to modernist poetry. Major poets of the movement include Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Horace Gregory, and Mike Gold. While

title: Langston Wilde

text: Todd had raped several years earlier; Starr is able to forgive Cole, but her parents forbid the two from seeing one another. Langston soon forgives Cole for hurting her friend. Cole and Starr, desperate to be together, decide to run away with the help of Langston. Todd catches the two before they leave, nearly strangling Cole. For Cole's safety, Starr breaks up with him. Langston signs Starr up for the school musical, and Starr in turn sets Langston up to write the musical. Working with English teacher Marcie McBain, the musical is a success, and Langston soon begins dating Markko

title: Charles Henry Langston

text: Freedman's School (later Western University), the first black college west of the Mississippi River. He was an older brother of John Mercer Langston, an accomplished attorney and activist, who had numerous appointed posts, and in 1888 was the first black person elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (and the last for nearly a century). Charles was the grandfather of renowned poet Langston Hughes. Langston was born free in 1817 in Louisa County, Virginia, the second of three sons and a daughter born to Lucy Jane Langston, a freedwoman of mixed African-American and Native American descent, and Ralph Quarles,

title: American proletarian poetry movement

text: American proletarian poetry movement Proletarian poetry is a political poetry movement that developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that expresses the class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. Such poems are either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist, though they are often aesthetically disparate. As a literature that emphasized working-class voices, the poetic form of works range from those emulating African-American slave work songs to modernist poetry. Major poets of the movement include Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Horace Gregory, and Mike Gold. While mainly originating in the proletarian literary movement that arose out of the avantgardist

title: Spoken word

text: in African American culture drew on a rich literary and musical heritage. Langston Hughes and writers of the Harlem Renaissance were inspired by the feelings of the blues and spirituals, hip-hop, and slam poetry artists were inspired by poets such as Hughes in their word stylings. The Civil Rights Movement also influenced spoken word. Notable speeches such as Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream", Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?", and Booker T. Washington's "Cast Down Your Buckets" incorporated elements of oration that influenced the spoken word movement within the African American community. The Last Poets was a poetry

title: Langston Hughes

text: organizations and avoid exacerbating his precarious financial situation, Hughes remained closeted. Arnold Rampersad, the primary biographer of Hughes, determined that Hughes exhibited a preference for African-American men in his work and life. But, in his biography Rampersad denies Hughes's homosexuality, and concludes that Hughes was probably asexual and passive in his sexual relationships. Hughes did, however, show a respect and love for his fellow black man (and woman). Other scholars argue for his homosexuality: his love of black men is evidenced in a number of reported unpublished poems to an alleged black male lover. On May 22, 1967, Hughes died

title: Looking for Langston

text: Looking for Langston Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic storyline celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York. The film has a runtime of about 42 minutes. Opening the film is a voice-over of the original radio broadcast made in tribute to Langston Hughes upon his death in 1967 as the scene of his

title: Langston Hughes

text: and train for a career in engineering. On these grounds, he was willing to provide financial assistance to his son, but did not support his desire to be a writer. Eventually, Hughes and his father came to a compromise: Hughes would study engineering, so long as he could attend Columbia. His tuition provided, Hughes left his father after more than a year. While at Columbia in 1921, Hughes managed to maintain a B+ grade average. He left in 1922 because of racial prejudice. He was attracted more to the African-American people and neighborhood of Harlem than to his studies, but

title: Langston Hughes

text: a sardonic realism. He also became an advisory board member to the (then) newly formed San Francisco Workers' School (later the California Labor School). In 1935, Hughes received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The same year that Hughes established his theatre troupe in Los Angeles, he realized an ambition related to films by co-writing the screenplay for "Way Down South". Hughes believed his failure to gain more work in the lucrative movie trade was due to racial discrimination within the industry. In Chicago, Hughes founded "The Skyloft Players" in 1941, which sought to nurture black playwrights and offer theatre "from the black

title: Poetry (magazine)

text: world." T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," was published in "Poetry". "Prufrock" was brought to Monroe's attention by early contributor and foreign correspondent, Ezra Pound. The magazine published the early works of H.D., Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Marianne Moore. The magazine discovered such poets as Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, and John Ashbery. Contributors have included, William Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, William Carlos Williams, Joyce Kilmer, Carl Sandburg, Charlotte Wilder, Robert Creeley, Wallace Stevens, Basil Bunting, Yone Noguchi, Carl Rakosi, Dorothy Richardson, Peter Viereck, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff,

title: Ishmael Reed

text: of first achieving national publication of his poetry in anthologies edited by the senior writers Langston Hughes and Walter Lowenfels, as a result of his introducing Lucille Clifton's poetry to Langston Hughes, Reed was responsible for her first national recognition in Hughes' anthology "The Poetry of the Negro" (1967). Reed has continued to champion the work of other contemporary writers, by founding and serving as editor and publisher of various small presses and journals since the early 1970s. His current publishing imprint is Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, and his online literary magazine, "Konch", features an international mix of poetry, essays

title: Langston Wilde

text: her adoptive mother. Langston forms a bond with her cousin, Lola, who develops a crush on Markko. Once Langston puts an end to Lola's schemes, she makes plans with Markko to have sex on prom night. After learning of their plans, Lola sabotages the French condoms given to Langston by Dorian. While high on LSD, Lola admits to what she has done, and Dorian stops Langston and Markko from using the condoms. Using Markko's condoms, Langston and Markko enjoy their first night together. Unfortunately, their happiness does not last long when, at their graduation party, drunk Dorian tells Markko's conservative

title: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry

text: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry is an album by jazz bassist Charles Mingus. In spite of the title, the album does not contain any poetry. "Scenes in the City", however, includes narration performed by Mel Stewart and written by actor Lonne Elder with assistance from Langston Hughes. The composition "Duke's Choice" re-appears, in updated form, as "I X Love" on the 1963 album "Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus". "Nouroog", "Duke's Choice" and "Slippers" form the basis of the suite "Open Letter to Duke" on "Mingus Ah Um". The CD

title: Langston, Oklahoma

text: Langston, Oklahoma Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,724 at the 2010 census, an increase of 3.2 percent from 1,670 at the 2000 census. Langston is home to Langston University, the only historically black college in Oklahoma. Langston was founded on April 22, 1890 by Edward P. McCabe, an African-American political figure from Kansas. McCabe helped lead a migration of black settlers from southern U.S. states who hoped to escape discrimination by creating a majority-black state in what was then the Territory of

title: Langston Hughes

text: his father, whom he seldom saw when a child. He lived briefly with his father in Mexico in 1919. Upon graduating from high school in June 1920, Hughes returned to Mexico to live with his father, hoping to convince him to support his plan to attend Columbia University. Hughes later said that, prior to arriving in Mexico, "I had been thinking about my father and his strange dislike of his own people. I didn't understand it, because I was a Negro, and I liked Negroes very much." His father had hoped Hughes would choose to study at a university abroad,

title: Langston Hughes

text: American living in Moscow and unable to leave. In Turkmenistan, Hughes met and befriended the Hungarian author Arthur Koestler, then a Communist who was given permission to travel there. As later noted in Koestler's autobiography, Hughes, together with some forty other Black Americans, had originally been invited to the Soviet Union to produce a Soviet film on "Negro Life", but the Soviets dropped the film idea because of their 1933 success in getting the US to recognize the Soviet Union and establish an embassy in Moscow. This entailed a toning down of Soviet propaganda on racial segregation in America. Hughes

title: Peter Langston

text: "Ballblazer" and "Rescue on Fractalus!". In fact, for "Ballblazer", Langston created an algorithmic composition system, which allowed the game to improvise music (from an initial set of musical snippets contributed by famous musicians) based on what is happening in the game. Langston later left Lucasfilm Games for Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). Langston retired in 1991 and is now consulting and running adult music camps. Peter Langston Peter Langston (born 1946) is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including one of the earliest text adventure video games "Wander", the original

title: Langston Hughes

text: After the death of his grandmother, Hughes went to live with family friends, James and Auntie Mary Reed, for two years. Later, Hughes lived again with his mother Carrie in Lincoln, Illinois. She had remarried when he was still an adolescent. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended high school and was taught by Helen Maria Chesnutt, whom he found inspiring. His writing experiments began when he was young. While in grammar school in Lincoln, Hughes was elected class poet. He stated that in retrospect he thought it was because of the stereotype about African Americans having rhythm.

title: Mel Stewart

text: the Broadway shows "Purlie Victorious", "The Hostage", "The Cool World", and "Simply Heavenly". Stewart's early career also included notable work as a voice actor. He provided the narration for "Scenes in the City", a long jazz composition with a text by Lonne Elder and Langston Hughes that appeared on Charles Mingus' 1957 album A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry. In 1961, Stewart recorded an album of Langston Hughes' poetry on Folkways Records: "Langston Hughes' The Best of Simple". He was also a member of the San Francisco-based improv group, "The Committee" and appeared in 1969 on "The Dick

text: on a Mingus album for some time before or since". All titles by Charles Mingus, except where noted. A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry is an album by jazz bassist Charles Mingus. In spite of the title, the album does not contain any poetry. "Scenes in the City", however, includes narration performed by Mel Stewart and written by actor Lonne Elder with assistance from Langston Hughes. The composition "Duke's Choice" re-appears, in updated form, as "I X Love" on the 1963 album "Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus". "Nouroog", "Duke's Choice"

title: Looking for Langston

text: funeral is recreated and reinterpreted. Interspersed among such images as shifting time periods that seamlessly flow from past to present, black men dancing together within a revisionist version of the Cotton Club, or a speakeasy, and dream sequences, are brief narrative extracts from the poetic works of Hughes alongside those of Richard Bruce Nugent, James Baldwin, and Essex Hemphill. Also shown are the controversial images of black men by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The film is not a biography of Langston Hughes. It is a memoriam to Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as reconstructed from a black gay perspective. Moreover,

title: I Write What I Like

text: I Write What I Like I Write What I Like (full name "I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko") is a compilation of writings from anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. "I Write What I Like" contains a selection of Biko's writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Student Organisation, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing. Originally published in 1978, the book was republished in 1987 and April 2002. The book's title was taken from the title under which he had published his writings in the SASO newsletter under the pseudonym Frank

title: Colorado poetry fellowship

text: at the University of Denver, was on the Board of the group. Ida Kruse McFarlane, another well-known University of Denver faculty member, served as an advisor to the Board in its early years. By 1938 the Fellowship had nearly 380 members. They held quarterly meetings, at which they listened to local poets present their work. They also organized lecture-recitals, which featured nationally known poets. Among those that the Fellowship brought to Denver were May Sarton, Langston Hughes, Don Blanding, Robert Frost, Haniel Long and William Rose Benét. The Fellowship also published a periodic poetry magazine, Timberlines. The magazine featured regional

title: Ted Hughes

text: the family and learnt a lot about wildlife from Wholly's father, a gamekeeper. He came to view fishing as an almost religious experience. Hughes attended Mexborough Grammar School, where a succession of teachers encouraged him to write, and develop his interest in poetry. Teachers Miss McLeod and Pauline Mayne introduced him to the poets Hopkins and Eliot. Hughes was mentored by his sister Olwyn, who was well versed in poetry, and another teacher, John Fisher. Poet Harold Massingham also attended this school and was also mentored by Fisher. In 1946 one of Hughes's early poems, "Wild West" and a short

title: Langston Wilde

text: and leaves for California with Markko. Langston appears on the final episode on January 13, 2012, in California with Starr and Markko. She is first seen mourning the death of Ford, when Cole arrives and gives them a hug. She assures Starr and Cole that everything will be alright. On the March 20, 2013, episode of "General Hospital", a frantic Langston calls Starr to return to Los Angeles. It remains unknown what Langston's reason was for wanting Starr to return. Langston Wilde Langston Wilde is a fictional character from ABC soap opera "One Life to Live" portrayed by Brittany Underwood

title: Ronald Simien

text: the same book with historical poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Maya Angelou amongst others. His first collection of poetry, "Thoughts" was published after Ronald was selected into the International Library of Poetry's Hall of Fame. "Stranded Thoughts" was his next publication followed by "Pains of an Innocent Stranger". Unable to convince publishers that poetry could be marketed mainstream to the masses, Ronald turned to self-publishing for two later titles, "Turning Point" and "Naughty But Nice". Ronald continues to write and shares his poetry through alternative outlets, selective print medias and private social events. Ronald Simien

title: Ted Hughes

text: women of the village into a "love coven" in order that he may father a new messiah. When the male members of the community discover what is going on, they murder him. The epilogue consists of a series of lyrics spoken by the restored priest in praise of a nature goddess, inspired by Robert Graves's "White Goddess". It was printed in 1977. Hughes was very interested in the relationship between his poetry and the book arts, and many of his books were produced by notable presses and in collaborative editions with artists, for instance with Leonard Baskin. In addition to

title: Langston Hughes

text: due to their race and class, in addition to relating to one another. In 1931, Hughes helped form the "New York Suitcase Theater" with playwright Paul Peters, artist Jacob Burck, and writer (soon-to-be underground spy) Whittaker Chambers, an acquaintance from Columbia. In 1932, he was part of a board to produce a Soviet film on "Negro Life" with Malcolm Cowley, Floyd Dell, and Chambers. In 1932, Hughes and Ellen Winter wrote a pageant to Caroline Decker in an attempt to celebrate her work with the striking coal miners of the Harlan County War, but it was never performed. It was

title: Langston Hughes

text: writings have been collected in two volumes published by the University of Missouri Press and reflect his attraction to Communism. An example is the poem "A New Song". In 1932, Hughes became part of a group of black people who went to the Soviet Union to make a film depicting the plight of African Americans in the United States. The film was never made, but Hughes was given the opportunity to travel extensively through the Soviet Union and to the Soviet-controlled regions in Central Asia, the latter parts usually closed to Westerners. While there, he met Robert Robinson, an African

title: Langston Hughes

text: Hughes became part of the black expatriate community. In November 1924, he returned to the U.S. to live with his mother in Washington, D.C. After assorted odd jobs, he gained white-collar employment in 1925 as a personal assistant to historian Carter G. Woodson at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. As the work demands limited his time for writing, Hughes quit the position to work as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel. There he encountered poet Vachel Lindsay, with whom he shared some poems. Impressed with the poems, Lindsay publicized his discovery of a

title: Langston Hughes

text: movement of the 1960s, but believed that some of the younger black writers who supported it were too angry in their work. Hughes's work "Panther and the Lash", posthumously published in 1967, was intended to show solidarity with these writers, but with more skill and devoid of the most virulent anger and racial chauvinism some showed toward whites. Hughes continued to have admirers among the larger younger generation of black writers. He often helped writers by offering advice and introducing them to other influential persons in the literature and publishing communities. This latter group, including Alice Walker, whom Hughes discovered,

title: Langston Hughes

text: From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Hughes' popularity among the younger generation of black writers varied even as his reputation increased worldwide. With the gradual advance toward racial integration, many black writers considered his writings of black pride and its corresponding subject matter out of date. They considered him a racial chauvinist. He found some new writers, among them James Baldwin, lacking in such pride, over-intellectual in their work, and occasionally vulgar. Hughes wanted young black writers to be objective about their race, but not to scorn it or flee it. He understood the main points of the Black Power

title: Langston Hughes

text: is pride in the African-American identity and its diverse culture. "My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind," Hughes is quoted as saying. He confronted racial stereotypes, protested social conditions, and expanded African America's image of itself; a "people's poet" who sought to reeducate both audience and artist by lifting the theory of the black aesthetic into reality. Hughes stressed a racial consciousness and cultural nationalism devoid of self-hate. His thought united people of African descent and Africa across the globe to encourage pride in their diverse black

title: Langston Hughes

text: South. He came to support the war effort and black American participation after deciding that war service would aid their struggle for civil rights at home. The scholar Anthony Pinn has noted that Hughes, together with Lorraine Hansberry and Richard Wright, was a humanist "critical of belief in God. They provided a foundation for nontheistic participation in social struggle." Pinn has found that such writers are sometimes ignored in the narrative of American history that chiefly credits the civil rights movement to the work of affiliated Christian people. Hughes was accused of being a Communist by many on the political

title: Langston Hughes

text: folk culture and black aesthetic. Hughes was one of the few prominent black writers to champion racial consciousness as a source of inspiration for black artists. His African-American race consciousness and cultural nationalism would influence many foreign black writers, including Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire. Along with the works of Senghor, Césaire, and other French-speaking writers of Africa and of African descent from the Caribbean, such as René Maran from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana in South America, the works of Hughes helped to inspire the Négritude movement in France. A radical black

title: Poetry of Maya Angelou

text: many of Angelou's poems could be set to music like that of jazz singer and musician Nina Simone. For example, "They Went Home" in "Diiie" was originally written as song lyrics. Angelou's poems have been compared to music and musical forms. The poems in her fourth volume, "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?" (1983), have been compared to the music of French singer Édith Piaf. In her review of "Shaker", Janet Blundell finds the best poems in the volume to be the ones that are structured like blues music. Critic Harold Bloom compares "Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition" in "Diiie" to Langston Hughes' blues/protest poetry.

title: Langston Hughes

text: a complex ancestry. Both of Hughes' paternal great-grandmothers were enslaved African Americans and both of his paternal great-grandfathers were white slave owners in Kentucky. According to Hughes, one of these men was Sam Clay, a Scottish-American whiskey distiller of Henry County, said to be a relative of statesman Henry Clay. The other was Silas Cushenberry, a Jewish-American slave trader of Clark County. Hughes's maternal grandmother Mary Patterson was of African-American, French, English and Native American descent. One of the first women to attend Oberlin College, she married Lewis Sheridan Leary, also of mixed race, before her studies. Lewis Leary subsequently

title: Langston Hughes

text: he broadcast live from Madrid alongside Harry Haywood and Walter Benjamin Garland. Hughes was also involved in other Communist-led organizations such as the John Reed Clubs and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. He was more of a sympathizer than an active participant. He signed a 1938 statement supporting Joseph Stalin's purges and joined the American Peace Mobilization in 1940 working to keep the U.S. from participating in World War II. Hughes initially did not favor black American involvement in the war because of the persistence of discriminatory U.S. Jim Crow laws and racial segregation and disfranchisement throughout the

title: Hugh Hughes (poet)

text: those some have since been lost; but some went the British Museum. Hughes was a disciple of Lewis Morris, and practically ceased to write poetry after Morris's death. His verses were esteemed by Goronwy Owen. He is one of the three Anglesey poets whose works are found in the "Diddanwch Teuluaidd neu waith Beirdd Mon" (London, 1763; 2nd edition, Carnarvon, 1817; 3rd edition, Liverpool, 1879). Other poems by him occur in the "Blodeugerdd", "Diddanwch i'w Feddianydd" (Dublin, 1773), and "Dewisol Ganiadau". Hughes also published translations from English works: Attribution Hugh Hughes (poet) Hugh Hughes (Y Bardd Coch) (22 March 1693

title: Ted Hughes

text: A memorial walk was inaugurated in 2005, leading from the Devon village of Belstone to Hughes's memorial stone above the River Taw, on Dartmoor, and in 2006 a Ted Hughes poetry trail was built at Stover Country Park, also in Devon. On 28 April 2011, a memorial plaque for Hughes was unveiled at North Tawton by his widow Carol Hughes. At Lumb Bridge near Pecket Well, Calderdale is a plaque, installed by The Elmet Trust, commemorating Hughes's poem "Six Young Men", which was inspired by an old photograph of six young men taken at that spot. The photograph, taken just

title: Jamie Langston Turner

text: three fictional towns near Greenville in Upstate South Carolina. Jamie Langston Turner Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist. Jamie Turner was born in Mississippi and teaches writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. Her novel "A Garden to Keep" won a 2002 Christy Award; her "Winter Birds" was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by "Publishers Weekly" and also won a Christy Award. After Bethany House remaindered "Winter Birds", Turner published her eighth novel, "To See the Moon Again", with mainstream Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Turner's novels were "loosely

title: Jamie Langston Turner

text: Jamie Langston Turner Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist. Jamie Turner was born in Mississippi and teaches writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. Her novel "A Garden to Keep" won a 2002 Christy Award; her "Winter Birds" was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by "Publishers Weekly" and also won a Christy Award. After Bethany House remaindered "Winter Birds", Turner published her eighth novel, "To See the Moon Again", with mainstream Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Turner's novels were "loosely conceived as a series" and are all set in

title: John Oliver Killens

text: John Oliver Killens John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916 – October 27, 1987) was an American fiction writer from Georgia. His novels featured elements of African-American life. Killens was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles Killens, Sr, and Willie Lee Killens. His father encouraged him to read Langston Hughes' writings, and his mother, who was president of the Dunbar Literary Club, introduced him to poetry. Killens was an enthusiastic reader as a child and was inspired by writers such as Hughes and Richard Wright. His great-grandmother’s tales of slavery were another important factor in his learning traditional black mythology

title: Fine Clothes to the Jew

text: Fine Clothes to the Jew Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf. Because it departed from sentimental depictions of African-American culture, the collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press, when it was published. The title appears in the poem "Hard Luck" in the book's first section. It refers to a phrase popular in Harlem at the time, referring to citizens who would pawn fine clothes to predominately Jewish-owned pawn shops when they were short on money . The collection was Hughes' least successful in terms of both

title: Fine Clothes to the Jew

text: sales and critical reception. However, his first work "The Weary Blues" and this collection made his reputation. Biographer Arnold Rampersad called it Hughes' "most brilliant book of poems." Fine Clothes to the Jew Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf. Because it departed from sentimental depictions of African-American culture, the collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press, when it was published. The title appears in the poem "Hard Luck" in the book's first section. It refers to a phrase popular in Harlem at the time, referring to

title: Rupert Hughes

text: his Yale degree, Hughes had already given up the idea of a staid life in academia for a new career as an author. His first book, 1898's "The Lakerim Athletic Club", came from a serialized magazine story for boys. Hughes often blurred the lines of job description in his early years, working at various times as a reporter for the "New York Journal" and editor for various magazines including "Current Literature", all the while continuing to write short stories, poetry, and plays. His first published novel not originally serialized elsewhere was "The Whirlwind", published in 1902. Believed to be partly

title: John Mercer Langston

text: John Mercer Langston John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician in the United States. An African American, he became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. Born a free black in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, in 1888 Langston was elected to the U.S. Congress as the first representative of color from Virginia. Joseph Hayne Rainey, the

title: Gabriela Mistral

text: Mistral's original name. Several selections of Mistral's poetry have been published in English translation, including those by Doris Dana, Langston Hughes, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some of Mistral's poems are translated into Nepali by Suman Pokhrel, and collected in an anthology titled "Manpareka Kehi Kavita". Gabriela Mistral Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made

title: Nicolás Guillén

text: de la Marina," and the first to translate American Langston Hughes’s poetry to Spanish, arranged for the two poets to meet. He was a white Cuban from an aristocratic family who loved black Cuba. He was a newspaperman, a diplomat, and a friend to Cuba’s artists. In February 1930, Langston Hughes traveled to Cuba for the second time, on a two-week mission to find a black composer to collaborate on a folk opera. He had been given a letter of introduction to José Antonio Fernández de Castro, his door to Cuba’s artistic world. At this time Hughes’ poetry was better