Presented in partnership with the Associat ion of Literary Scholars\, Critics\, and Writers\; the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research\; Washington University in St. Louis\; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
One hundred y ears ago Langston Hughes published his now-famous first poem\, “The Negro S peaks of Rivers.” In the decades that followed\, as both a longtime residen t 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.
Join B rent Hayes Edwards\, director of the Schomburg Center's Scholars-in-Residen ce Program\, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbi a University\, and Rafia Zafar\, Professor of African-American Studies at W ashington University in St. Louis and editor of Library of America’s two-vo lume collection of Harlem Renaissance novels\, for a conversation about Hug hes’s greatness and about his centrality for American literature and the cu lture of the global African diaspora. Featuring readings by poets Kevin You ng and Tyehimba Jess.
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