Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

Edited by David Roessel

Edited by Arnold Rampersad

Illustrated by Benny Andrews

Foreword by Renée Watson

On Sale: Jul 20, 2021
Page Count: 60 pages
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN-13: 9781454943754

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Celebrate 100 years of Langston Hughes’s powerful poetry.

A Coretta Scott King Honor Award recipient, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes includes 26 of the poet’s most influential pieces, including: “Mother to Son”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “I, Too”; and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”—Hughes’s first published piece, which was originally released in June 1921. This collection is curated and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, two leading poetry experts. It also features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews and a new foreword by Renée Watson, a Newbery Honor Award recipient and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective.

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Langston Hughes

About the Author

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and grew up in Kansas before moving to Harlem in New York City. Hughes is a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In his lifetime, Hughes published over thirty-five works, including poetry, novels, short stories, an autobiography, musicals, essays, and plays.

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