Tag Archives: Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes, Profound Conversations

By Robin Bates | Published: February 20, 2013

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” opened up a profound conversation with our building’s housekeeping staff.

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Elated? Depressed? This Lit’s for You

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2012

Lit to caution election night winners and bolster election night losers.

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Whitman & Hughes Hear America Singing

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2011

Today, for July 4, I offer up two ultra-American poems. Walt Whitman embraces multitudes” in “I Hear America Singing,” and Langston Hughes, in an addendum, mentions some of those Americans that, in the past, have been forgotten. May we all remember that America is astounding in its willingness to open itself to all people.

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How to Write a “True” Essay about Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: December 9, 2010

When I wasn’t teaching class yesterday, I was continuing my marathon essay-grading session. I took a break to write today’s post, however, and used a well-known poem by Langston Hughes to reflect on what I was asking my students to do. In “Theme for English B,” the only black student in a college composition course […]

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