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

In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to his class: Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak.

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

Graham Boatfield thought that efforts in London to marry jazz and poetry were a failure and recommended instead Langston ...