Sites that give information about Langston Hughes and reprint one or more of his works include the following: 

	"Theme for English B"  For those of us who live in Winston-Salem, this is one of the best examples I know of the danger of assuming that the "I" in a poem is the poet.  Hughes was not born in Winston-Salem.  (The interesting question is, why does he use the city's name here?  It's a plausible choice, but there were many other places he could have named.)
	Academy of American Poets
	PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
	Modern American Poetry: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)  This links to a biography by a major Hughes scholar, the text of  Hughes' important essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,"   and many other resources.
	Langston Hughes (from Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance)
	Langston Hughes (Simple stories in audio format)
	"Ballad of Booker T."  The typescript first draft, three other drafts, and the final version, all at the Library of Congress.  The same documents appear, with an introduction, in the library's American Memory exhibit Words and Deeds in American History.  (Click the small page image to begin.)
	"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (sheet music at the Library of Congress)
	"To Negro Writers" (a 1935 essay)
	"Dream Deferred"
	Featured Author:   Langston Hughes  This page from the New York Times Review of Books has links to audio files of Hughes reading several poems.  It also has a link to a chapter from a book of letters between Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. (If you haven't already registered with the site, you'll have to do that, but registration is free.)
	The Langston Hughes page at the Ohioana Library site links to images of two typescript letters as well as some interesting pictures.
	Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes There are links and other resources here, but the best thing is the 56-minute video about Hughes that you can view. (Click on the icon next to video #6. You'll have to sign up if you have not used the site before, but registration is free.)
	Langston Hughes:  A Voice for All People  Identified as "an Exhibition from the Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas," this site has many interesting images.
	Phat African American Poetry Book
	Weary Blues/Blues Abatido (several poems with Spanish translations)
	Mp3 files of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Trumpet Player" at Salon.com
	Langston Hughes Resources  From Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, a set of links assembled in preparation for the 2002 symposium at the University of Kansas that marked the centennial of Hughes' birth.
	Works by Langston Hughes (three short stories and "I, Too" in the online materials for "Cora Unashamed" in the Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theater
	Langston Hughes in Lawrence   Another page from Lawrence, KS.  Several of the exhibit pages include poems.
	Selected Poetry of Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
	Borzoi Reader Online:  Langston Hughes
	Langston Hughes' Mother to Son
	Survey Graphic Harlem Number (March 1925)  This is an important document of the Harlem Renaissance.  Alain Locke's article "Youth Speaks" includes several poems by Hughes.  (Click on facsimile page 664.)
	Inspirational Poetry by Langston Hughes
	Two Letters
	"My old man's a white old man. . ."  Listen to a recording of Hughes reading "Mulatto" and read the text of "Cross."
	Shades of Black  Includes "Dream Variations."

(It would be wise to check the texts of poems against a reliable printed source.)

Many other resources are available on the Internet, in the C. G. O'Kellly Library, and in many of the texts used in courses in the Department of English and Foreign Languages.

This page was originally created for WSSU's participation in the NCTE  African American Read-In Chain for 2002.  More information about the Read-In Chain (an annual event) appears on the web pages maintained by Dr. Jerrie L. C. Scott of the University of Memphis.  

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