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Vachel Lindsay in 1912. While in New York in 1905 Lindsay turned to poetry in earnest. He tried to sell his poems on the streets. Self-printing his poems, he began to barter a pamphlet titled Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, which he traded for food as a self-perceived modern version of a medieval troubadour.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1 ... and was about to be collected into his first book of poetry when he encountered poet Vachel Lindsay, with whom ...
[17] [18]: 169 Rachel Blau DuPlessis argues that part of the poem reinterprets Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo", by portraying the Congo River as "a pastoral nourishing, maternal setting." [13] Hughes references the spiritual "Deep River" in the line "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." [8] The poem was also influenced by Walt Whitman. [8]
I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...
The Golden Book of Springfield is a mystic, utopian book by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It is the only extended, narrative work of prose fiction written by Lindsay. Written from 1904 to 1918 and published in 1920, it has historically been classified as a work of utopian fiction .
In addition to Fauset and Van Vechten, participants who responded included Charles W. Chesnutt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Walter White, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Also responding were Alfred A. Knopf, John C. Farrar, H. L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, DuBose Heyward, Julia Peterkin, and Joel Spingarn. [1 ...
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues [11] Vachel Lindsay: Going to the Stars [9] The Candle in the Cabin [9] Amy Lowell, East Wind [9] Archibald MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, including "The End of the World" Edgar Lee Masters, Lee: A Dramatic Poem [9] John G. Neihardt, Collected Poems [9] Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope [9] Ezra Pound, Personae: The ...