To get you started, we’re focusing on 10 of the most powerful Langston Hughes poems. Consider this your introduction to the incredible potency of the celebrated poet’s words and their rhythms.

Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman including Olivia Colman, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave. Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the ...

The North Park resident says she hopes to work with local schools to incorporate more poetry into their curriculums and host ...

It is an extraordinarily powerful poem — just the sort of thing adults of an earlier era would have wanted to protect a child from. I would not call the poem inappropriate for an advanced high ...

“Our metaphor container ship is dry-docked”) nicely counterpoint powerful poems of grief, such as May Day in Marbella: “ ... Time/ slipped and the sea oh my God, going for an Oscar/ with its ...

Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time. “These powerful poems show the enormous impact coronavirus has had on children’s lives, as well as their strength, resilience, ...

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 ...