just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") is a poem by Langston Hughes. These eleven lines ask, "What...

2 Harlem (film), a 1943 Italian sports crime film "Harlem" (poem), a 1951 poem by Langston Hughes Harlem (TV series), a 2021 American comedy Harlem: A...

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship...

leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue...

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, Finnish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East...

in Harlem: Negro Metropolis and satirized in Amiable With Big Teeth. His sonnet sequence, "The Cycle," published posthumously in the Complete Poems, deals...

book-length poem suite published by Langston Hughes in 1951. Its jazz poetry style focuses on scenes over the course of a 24-hour period in Harlem (a neighborhood...

volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and...

most renowned of the Harlem Renaissance sonnets" and the "inaugural address" of the Renaissance. Wallace Thurman considered the poem as embodying the essence...

traditionalists", who appreciated the poem's message. Hughes's poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Mother to Son", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia...

Street. Its traffic is figuratively described as "Harlem's heartbeat" by Langston Hughes in his poem Juke Box Love Song. From 119th Street to 123rd Street...

My Father's Cadillac (1984) Early Love Poems of Genghis Kahn (1979) Blinded by Halos (1978) East Harlem Poems (1977) Robert Scotellaro, author's official...

English, and published Color, his first collection of poems that later became a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. Written in a careful, traditional style...

Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl...

poem Harlem Gallery, was published in 1965. The poem consists of several sections, each beginning with a letter of the Greek alphabet. The poem concentrates...

circles as a key cultural moment of the Harlem Renaissance. Finding inspiration through William Rose Bennet's poem "Harlem", she founded and named her self-proclaimed...

A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy...

The long poem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length. Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes...

for me ain’t been no crystal stair. Hughes's poems "Mother to Son", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia of African-American...

"Burn Baby Burn" is a poem by American poet Marvin X, X wrote the poem shortly after the Watts Rebellion in 1965 to convey the oppression he believed black...

University during the Harlem Renaissance. As a collection of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the...

within the Stonewall National Monument in 2019. Jordan was born in 1936 in Harlem, New York, as the only child of Granville Ivanhoe Jordan and Mildred Maude...

"Incident" is a poem by Countee Cullen, describing a black child's exposure to racism from a white child. It was first published in his 1925 poetry collection...

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and...

Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for Nonfiction Winner 2011 Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Myers Audie Award for Distinguished Achievement in...

Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes. The story tells...

"Flag Salute" is a poem written by Esther Popel about the lynching of George Armwood on October 18, 1933 in Princess Anne, Maryland. It was first published...

Johnson (July 7, 1906 – July 7, 1995) was an African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. She is remembered today for her poetry that captures both the...

literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers...

"The Weary Blues" in 1925 during Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance. The setting of the poem is actually unclear, at first. However, as it goes on...