![]() This selection of 15 poems by Hughes relate to water: the sea, rivers and even the rain.Īs Bryan noted in a recent telephone interview, growing up in the Bronx he had to discover Hughes’s poetry on his own. Everyone goes away with the last line echoing in their heads: “Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people,” and that pleases Bryan, who has always made a special case for the beauty and strength-and importance-of Hughes’s verse.īryan continues his mission to raise awareness of the Joplin, Missouri-born poet (1902-1967) with the publication of Sail Away (Atheneum Books for Young Readers). The award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan from Islesford (Little Cranberry Island) often concludes his storytelling performances with a remarkable recitation of Langston Hughes’s poem “My People,” asking his audience to repeat the lines after him. Grants and Scholarships Portal – Apply Here. ![]()
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