Vachel Lindsay

began to write poetry after being introduced to poets Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. After high school he attended Columbia University and joined the Harlem Renaissance and dropped out of Columbia in 1922. He began working as a bus boy and met Vachel Lindsay and he shared his poetry. He was impressed and through his connections summited the work in a magazine and won first place which He later received a scholarship to attend Lincoln University in 1925 for some of his literary work, and…

In November of 1924, he, once again, returned to the United States where he would work different employments. In 1925, he was filling in as a table attendant in a Washington D.C. hotel restaurant. This is the point at which he met poet, Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay advanced some of Hughes' verse, giving him a greater crowd. In 1925, at the Opportunity magazine scholarly competition, The Weary Blues won first prize. He also got a scholarship to continue his education at Lincoln University in…

Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels…

In November 1924, while Hughes was working at a hotel restaurant he ran into American poet Vachel Lindsay who was impressed with his work and promoted his writings launching his career. There soon in 1925 Hughes poem “The Weary Blues” won first prize in the Opportunity magazine literary competitions. With Hugh’s gaining fame on his poem, it became…

Langston Hughes was born on February 1,1902.He was born in Joplin,Missouri.Langston Hughes full name was James Mercer Langston Hughes.Soon after he was born his parents separated.Langston Hughes father moved to Mexico.He was raised mostly by his grandmother.Since his mom moved around a lot during his early life.Langston Hughes grandmother was named Mary.He lived in Lawrence, Kansas until his grandmother died when he was a teenager.After his grandmother died he lived with some family friends…

Langston Hughes endured many hardships, even during infancy. His parents divorced and his dad moved all the way to Mexico. When he was thirteen years old, he went to go live with his grandmother in Lincoln, Illinois. It was then he decided to put the rest of his love and passion into his poetry and became one of the most famous and well-known poets of all time. Hughes was born on the first of February in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. [Although] he was born in Joplin, he mostly grew up in Lawrence…

According to the book “Langston Hughes was a prolific, original, and versatile writer. He became a leading voice of the African American experience in America.” American poet Vachel Lindsay was impressed with Hughes’s work, so impressed that she promoted his poetry and that led to him winning first prize in the opportunity magazine literary competition, it also led to him receiving a scholarship to attend the Lincoln University.…

The famous author Langston Hughes, born James Mercer Langston Hughes, was one of the most influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance. The life of Langston Hughes has influenced many people throughout history and his story is still changing lives. Hughes is one of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance and possibly of all time. He was the voice of many African American people at this time. Their voices were not being heard, so he spoke out for them; through songs, novels,…

and publish his poems. In 1924, Hughes returned to the United States and worked as a busboy in a Washington, D.C. Once, while Hughes was working at a hotel restaurant, he saw the American poet Vachel Lindsay sitting there. The statement from the Softschools: “Hughes gives him some of his own poems and Lindsay puts him in contact with the Knopf Publishing Company.” (Softschools) Hughes did not let this opportunity go, his poems were paid attention and he was discovered as an talented poem. His…

It was rough being African American in a time like the 1940’s, especially in the United States. Langston Hughes, however, knew how to turn those hardships into poetry. Hughes was a strong believer of equality, and he expressed this in his poems. Because he grew up as an African American during the time of segregation in the United States and not only saw but experienced first hand the many acts of unkindness done to African Americans, Langston Hughes’s “I, Too” has a universal theme of racial…