Tony+Lewis+Langston+Hughes

 ==  James Mercer Langston Hughes     ==




 ** Liked to ** : Harlem Renaissance

media type="youtube" key="KyqwvC5s4n8" height="300" width="370"  The weary Blues, my favorite poem by far.  <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20);"> I was born    <span style="background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 45);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 150%; color: rgb(255, 233, 20);"> March 29,1912      <span style="background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20);"> in Joplin, Missouri, but lived with my grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas until I was thirteen  and then with my mother in Lincoln, Illinois and Cleveland, Ohio where I went to high school. I began writing in High School gaining the strong and powerful voice i have today. When my grandmother died, my mother summoned me to her home in Lincoln, Illinois. Here, I wrote my first verse and was named class poet of my eighth grade class! Pretty exciting accomplishment! I spent the year after high school in Mexico with my father, who tried to discourage me from writing... But my poetry and prose were beginning to appear in the Brownie's Book, a publication for children edited by W. E. B. Du Bois, and I was starting work on more ambitious material for adult readers. The poem "A Negro Speaks of River," which marked my development, appeared in the Crisis magazine in 1921. M y life and hard work were enormously influential during the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s alongside those of my contemporaries like, <span class="wiki_link_ext">Zora Neale Hurston  ,  <span class="wiki_link_ext">Wallace Thurman  , <span class="wiki_link_ext">Claude McKay  , <span class="wiki_link_ext">Countee Cullen  , <span class="wiki_link_ext">Richard Bruce        <span class="wiki_link_ext">Nugent  , and <span class="wiki_link_ext">Aaron Douglas  , who, collectively, created the short-lived magazine Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro    Artists. Authors listed and also myself help shape a very uplifting time...and thanks to that time i am who i am today.
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__** <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">The Famous Black Musicians of the Renaissance **__ <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"> __<span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"> **<span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">Books: **__<span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"> The era of Harlem Renaissance shaped me as a writer to write poems such as... <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> ||  || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   ||
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 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Fine Clothes to the Jew//. Knopf, 1927
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations//, 1931
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Dear Lovely Death//, 1931
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//The Dream Keeper and Other Poems//. Knopf, 1932
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play//. N.Y.: Golden Stair Press, 1932
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Shakespeare in Harlem//. Knopf, 1942
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Freedom's Plow//. 1943
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Fields of Wonder//. Knopf,1947
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//One-Way Ticket//. 1949
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Montage of a Dream Deferred//. Holt, 1951
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Selected Poems of Langston Hughes//. 1958
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz//. Hill & Wang, 1961
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times//, 1967
 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">//The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes//. Knopf, 1994

<span style="color: rgb(255, 233, 20); background-color: rgb(180, 4, 22);">The man who helped me get things started __**Disclaimer:**__ This page was created for a project in our honors class, to create a page based on a character or author in one of the units that we have studied. I chose Langston Hughes and I have created this page about him as if I were acting and talking like him in first person. I hereby announce that I am not the owner of any of these pictures or youtube videos. I have no claims to any of the media uses, most were found of off photobucket and other file sharing websites. I have tried to create a myspace like page for the poet Langston Hughes. If I have offended anyone it was not meant deliberately but please contact me at the discussion button and we can discuss any problems.

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