Good Trouble Reading Group: Poetry of Langston Hughes
About the Event
Join our monthly reading group for our next session to discuss a selection of poems by Langston Hughes.
One of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance starting in the 1920s, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a generation of Black writers in America. His poems celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, turning poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and ripping through the curtain separating high culture from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." They give us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity, whose voice still sounds fresh today.
Email eden@lapl.org for the reading selection and the Zoom link to attend.
For disability-related accommodations, please call (213) 228-7430 at least five business days prior to the event.
