Posts Tagged ‘Langston Hughes’
February 4th, 2013 | 
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Chris Honeycutt – wish you were still blogging, Chris – wrote to me, “Totally thought of you on this“:
“If you’re reading this sentence, chances are you’re reading it silently…”
Yup.
“Your lips aren’t moving, you’re not making any sound that other people can hear. But are you making ’sound’ in your head?”
Absolutely.
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Today would have been the 110th birthday of James Mercer Langston Hughes, “an American poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist.” When he died on May 22, 1967, I wasn’t that familiar with his work, but I knew that someone important had passed. He was born into abolitionist stock, had both black and white critics, but eventually became a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
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