Langston Hughes

Mar 3, 2025 | williamspivey.substack.com | Langston Hughes |Amanda Gorman |Terrance Hayes |Jaamal May

Poetry cleanses the palate; it exists independently or as part of a greater narrative. Here are nine magnificent poems, and one I wrote means something to me. None would survive a review by Ron DeSantis, that, and one. “The Hill We Climb,” recently made news by being banned in a Florida elementary school. Enjoy while you can!BY MAYA ANGELOUYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?

Nov 30, 2024 | denvergazette.com | Langston Hughes |John Moore

“Mama Jo” has come out of retirement, and all her children have come home to welcome her back. Director Jo Bunton Keel, co-founder of Denver’s late, foundational Eulipions Theatre Company, is about to become the feel-good story of the local theater year when her once annual production of “Black Nativity” opens Dec. 6 at the Vintage Theatre after an 18-year absence.

Nov 13, 2024 | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Langston Hughes |Danez Smith

A: Do I wish he lived in a world where he could have been loud and proud about it? Sure. Do I feel like the people who needed to know did know? Yes. Q: Reading the Hughes poetry in “Blues in Stereo,” poems he wrote when he was a young man in the 1920s, many sound like they could have been written yesterday. A: Since caveman [days], we write about sex, we write about love, we write about war, we write about country, life and death and time. All the big things.

Jul 29, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | A.A. Cristi |Jordan Cooper |Kate Hamill |Langston Hughes

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Jul 8, 2024 | poemsancientandmodern.substack.com | Langston Hughes |Joseph Bottum

Tip JarText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedDroning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other nightBy the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory keyHe made that poor piano moan with melody.