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James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. ... It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ...
Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ... Unlike other notable black poets of the period--Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. ...
Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. In his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York City, has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission, and East 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place. ...
photo: Consuelo Kanaga
A Selected Bibliography
Poetry
The Weary Blues (1926)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
Dear Lovely Death (1931)
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
Scottsboro Limited (1932)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
Freedoms Plow (1943)
Fields of Wonder (1947)
One-Way Ticket (1949)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Selected Poems (1959)
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994) Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Approximate Word count = 776
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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