“Harlem” captures the anger ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

which includes a poem by Langston Hughes, read by the poet himself. Probably his most famous poem is Harlem, and in particular the phrase “raisin in the sun.” What happens to a dream deferred?

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes ... After giving a poetry reading at Fisk University in Nashville, Hughes journeyed by ...

“Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned ... even,” Weso said. Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913.

See George Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (Cambridge ... It is reprinted in Arnold Rampersad, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage Classics, 1995), 32.