Author:James Mercer Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
(1901–1967)

Langston Hughes

Works

Individual poems

• "Elevator Boy" (1926)
• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
• "Railroad Avenue" (1926)
• "God to Hungry Child" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1928)

Poetry

• The Weary Blues (1926)
• Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
• Dear Lovely Death (1931)
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
• Scottsboro Limited (1932)
• Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
• Freedom's Plow (1943)
• Fields of Wonder (1947)
• One-Way Ticket (1949)
• Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
• Selected Poems (1959)
• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
• The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)
• Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994), edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel

Prose

• Not Without Laughter (1930)
• The Ways of White Folks (1934)
• The Big Sea (1940)
• Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)
• Laughing to Keep From Crying (1952)
• Simple Takes a Wife (1953)
• I Wonder as I Wander (1956)
• Simple Stakes a Claim (1957)
• The Langston Hughes Reader (1958)
• Tambourines to Glory (1958)
• Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)
• Simple's Uncle Sam (1965)
• Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes (1973), edited by Faith Berry
• The Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters (1980), edited by Charles Nichols
• Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 (2001), edited by Emily Bernard

Drama

• Mule Bone (1930)
• Little Ham (1935)
• Mulatto (1935)
• Soul Gone Home (1937)
• Don't You Want to Be Free? (1938)
• Street Scene, lyrics (1946), opera with music by Kurt Weill and libretto by Elmer Rice
• Simply Heavenly (1957)
• Black Nativity (1961)
• Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963), edited by Webster Smalley
• The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (2000), with an Introduction by Susan Duffy
• Collected Works of Langston Hughes vol. 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move (2000), edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders

Copyright

• The Estate of Langston Hughes are active protectors of the intellectual property of his works. They have been gracious enough to allow a few sites to release a few poems by Langston Hughes. These sites are listed below.

External links

• The Academy of American Poets
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• Borzoi Reader
• Ossie Davis readings
• Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance