Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
Professor Rafia Zafar to participate in a conversation about Hughes's greatness on the 100th anniversary of his first published poem. Presented by Library of America.
One hundred years ago Langston Hughes published his now-famous first poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In the decades that followed, as both a longtime resident of Harlem and a cosmopolitan world traveler, Hughes wrote of Black life in masterful, deceptively simple poems and prose that made him one of the most popular and influential writers of the twentieth century.
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