langston hughes

     

He had already published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" when Vachel Lindsay discovered him busing tables

Trivia about langston hughes

  • This poet's first name was James; Langston was one of his middle names
  • 1960 Spingarn Medal winner, among this poet's works on his life in Harlem was "The Weary Blues"
  • This Harlem Renaissance poet wondered, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
  • "The Weary Blues" is a collection of verse by this Harlem Renaissance poet
  • The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this "Harlem" poet's short stories
  • Harlem poet who wrote "Rest at pale evening... a tall slim tree... night coming tenderly black like me"
  • In "Harlem" he asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
  • This author of 1935's "Mulatto" was referred to as "the Poet Laureate of Harlem"
  • The Times marked the Centennial of this poet who wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother"
  • 20th century New Yorker who wrote, "I am the darker brother" but "I, too, am America"
  • In "Harlem", he penned, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
  • Among his poetry collections is 1942's "Shakespeare in Harlem"
  • He began a 1951 poem, "Good morning, Daddy! Ain't you heard the boogie-woogie rumble of a dream deferred?"