Patricia Sener It isn’t hard to find the Langston Hughes house in East Harlem: It’s midway down the block named in his honor (Langston Hughes Place, a section of East 127th Street between ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1901. He considered himself a poet first, although he wrote in many literary genres, from short stories to ...

A premiere staging of stories by Langston Hughes populates the grand rooms of an historic mansion in Northeast Philadelphia. The EgoPo Classic Theater company and Theatre in the X have turned seven ...

If you know Hughes at a surface level, but don't know where to start plumbing his depths, these seven poems — and a few book recommendations for the youngest among us — will cement his place ...