Download Langston Hughes First Poem Background. Hughes was an american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. The first, the negro speaks of rivers, hughes wrote in 1920 when he was only 17.
Influenced by walt whitman and jazz , the wordsmith's writings contain a rhythm that begs for a reading backed by a blues band.
See more ideas about langston hughes poems, langston hughes, poems. Du bois, and was written while he was on a train to visit his father. Download this free langston hughes packet of worksheets about his poem dreams and compare and contrast it with king's dream. Langston hughes' let america be america again was written more than eight decades ago, but is just as relevant now as our nation struggles to live in this musical adaptation of langston hughes's poem, darius barnes and evan tyrone martin play the electrifying tap duo the nicholas brothers.