Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

Helen Keller had been both blind and deaf since childhood, but that didn't stop her from becoming an author and activist later in life. It also didn't stop her from flying a plane. In 1946 ...

Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston ... Hughes was a prominent writer and civil rights activist. He is best known for his innovative poetry, which often mimicked ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on ...

The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

Joe Wilson Jr. performs In Explanation of Our Times by Langston Hughes at the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading Sunday afternoon Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles has role ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This groundbreaking book blends history, sociology, musicology, and political ...

Joe Wilson Jr. performs In Explanation of Our Times by Langston Hughes at the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading Sunday afternoon ...

Without question, one of the major events of the year 1904, at least as far as the general public was concerned, was the graduation of Helen Adams Keller from ... the poet and critic, and was ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

This poem is for her friend, Helen Voss. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...