News at Eleven: A new generation, singing along,

celebrated all things Bohemian and, in doing so, found a new excuse to rediscover [Langston] Hughes' poetry.

But it's for his association with the Harlem Renaissance that Hughes is best remembered. The poems he wrote then swing wild with energy and resonate deeply with voice. They are, most of all, fun to read. They are a delight.

Poetry "is the human soul entire, squeezed like a lemon or a lime, drop by drop, into atomic words," Hughes said shortly before his death. For Hughes, poetry was life.

from Scholars & Rogues: Honoring Langston Hughes

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