What poem did the poet from Joplin,MO Langston Hughes write?
Let America be America Again "Let America Be America Again" is a poem written in 1935 by American poet Langston Hughes. It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of "Esquire Magazine". It was later republished in the 1937 to be read issue of "Kansas Magazine" and was revised and included in a small collection of Langston Hughes poems entitled "A New Song", published by the International Workers Order in 1938.
Nicholas Freeston Nicholas Freeston (28 August 1907 – 6 February 1978) was an English poet who spent most of his working life as a weaver in cotton mills near his home in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire. He published five books of poetry, occasionally writing in Lancashire dialect, and won fifteen awards including a gold medal presented by the president of the United Poets' Laureate International. He was listed in the third edition of "Who's Who in the World" and appeared on television and radio reading his own work. A UK national newspaper, the "Daily Mirror", called him the "Cotton Mill Bard" and the "Lancashire Evening Telegraph", the "Wordsworth of the Weaving Shed".