Langston Hughes: America's Greatest Poet

Langston Hughes has been recalled as one of America’s greatest poets. He wrote a plethora of novels, short stories, plays, poems, and was also engaged in jazz music, noting that it highly influenced his writing. Hughes is well-known for his perceptive portrayals of African American life in the nation from the twenties up to the sixties, greatly contributing to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. My personal connection to Hughes is that we both have a great interest in writing, poetry in particular.