In 2002, Alice Walker, Danny Glover, other
artists and scholars were in Lawrence, Kansas to celebrate the 100th anniversary of writer Langston Hughes.

Dreams
by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.

The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.

Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Poem
by Langston Hughes

I loved my friend.
He went away from me.
There's nothing more to say.
The poem ends
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.

Langston Hughes
National Poetry Project
Speaking of Rivers: Taking Poetry to the People
http://www.kuce.org/hughes/#

Langston Hughes
Kansas Historical Society
http://www.kshs.org/people/hughes_langston.htm

(JAMES) LANGSTON HUGHES (I hear America Singing)(1902-1967)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/
hughes.htm
Includes Hughes's Life and Career--by Arnold Rampersad

Langston Hughes
http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/hughesl.html

Langston Hughes
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes

Langston Hughes : Bibliography
http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/hughesbib.htm

Langston Hughes in Lawrence: 1902-1915
Photographs & Biographical Resources
http://www.ku.edu/heritage/kshistory/langstonhughes.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature:
A Research and Reference Guide
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html