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The 26 pages that link to Langston Hughes, each with the reason it gives.

• Harlem RenaissanceRelated: His poems became among the movement’s most recognizable literary expressions.

• Free verseRelated: His poems adapt blues and jazz rhythms through flexible lineation and repetition.

• African-American literatureRelated: His poetry draws on blues and jazz to articulate Black life and aspiration.

• HarlemRelated: Hughes’s writing captured the neighborhood’s people, music, and aspirations.

• American modernismRelated: He helped shape the Harlem Renaissance and brought vernacular forms into modern poetry.

• Zora Neale HurstonRelated: Hurston and Hughes collaborated on the play Mule Bone before their partnership broke down.

• American poetryBroader topic: He drew on blues and jazz to express Black life and challenge racial injustice.

• ClevelandRelated: Hughes spent part of his childhood in Cleveland and attended Central High School.

• James Weldon JohnsonRelated: Hughes belonged to a younger generation whose literary prominence followed Johnson’s cultural leadership.

• Richard WrightRelated: Hughes helped connect Wright’s early writing to publishers and the wider literary world.

• Alain LockeRelated: Hughes appeared in The New Negro, whose publication helped introduce his work to a broad audience.

• The CrisisRelated: His work appeared in The Crisis, connecting the magazine to a defining literary movement.

• Kurt WeillRelated: His libretto for Street Scene helped Weill address American urban life and racial inequality.

• Poetry and politicsRelated: His poems addressed racial inequality and the promises and failures of American democracy.

• The New NegroRelated: His poetry gave memorable voice to racial pride and artistic independence.

• MissouriRelated: His birthplace links Missouri to a leading figure in African American literature.

• Claude McKayRelated: Hughes and McKay represent distinct generations and styles within the Harlem Renaissance’s literary legacy.

• Gwendolyn BrooksRelated: Hughes recognized Brooks’s talent early and helped bring her first collection to a publisher.

• Countee CullenRelated: Hughes and Cullen were prominent contemporaries with sharply different poetic approaches.

• Georgia Douglas JohnsonRelated: Hughes was among the writers connected to Johnson’s Washington literary gatherings.

• Keorapetse KgositsileRelated: Hughes’s example helped establish a transnational Black poetic tradition Kgositsile inherited.

• Margaret WalkerRelated: Hughes encouraged Walker’s poetry and recognized her talent while she was a young writer.

• Dorothy WestRelated: Hughes was West’s friend and travel companion on a 1920s trip to the Soviet Union.

• Jessie R. FausetRelated: Fauset encountered Hughes’s early poetry while editing The Crisis and helped bring it to publication.

• Nicolás GuillénRelated: Hughes and Guillén shared literary interests and a transnational engagement with Black identity.

• Wallace ThurmanRelated: He collaborated with Thurman on the experimental magazine Fire!!