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.
Songs of the Harlem River Songs of the Harlem River: Forgotten One Acts of the Harlem Renaissance is a collection of five one-act plays written between 1920 and 1930 by several African-American playwrights at the time including Marita Bonner, Ralf M. Coleman, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Willis Richardson, and Eulalie Spence. Also included are poems by Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes, and Jessie Fauset.