Langston Hughes Study Guide

Langston Hughes never considered himself a poet until the age of fourteen, when his grammar school classmates nominated him for class poet. Hughes had not written any poems, but his classmates, who were all white, knew that good poems had rhythm. Since Langston was black, and black people were supposed to have rhythm, Langston's classmates assumed he would be a good poet. He delivered his first poem on graduation day. (read more)