10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit. Story by Jamar Jackson • 10mo (ThyBlackMan.com) ... such as a raisin in the sun, a festering sore, and a heavy load.

Sharon Cook, retired English and theater educator from the Norfolk Public Schools, clearly loves her Langston — that’s poet Langston Hughes, of course. Cook begins her taut, well-directed ...

Minneapolis’ Danez Smith looks to Langston Hughes and Andre 3000 ... a collection of the early poems of the great Langston Hughes, ... talks about dreams drying like “a raisin in the sun. ...

One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in 1921 in The Crisis, ... But blow one blaring trumpet note of sun ...

The title of the play comes from a line in a Langston Hughes' poem called 'Harlem.' "You understand each one of these people's dreams and how many times those dreams have been put off," says Finister.

The show’s title, “A Raisin in the Sun,” is a nod to Langston Hughes’ famous poem “Harlem,” where Hughes elegantly talks of what occurs when potential isn’t reached, and hope is scant.

Hansberry took the title of her play from Langston Hughes’ scalding poem of the same name, ... Clocking in at nearly three hours, “A Raisin in the Sun” drags at times, ...

In this great American classic (rightfully enshrined with the best works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and August Wilson), even the stage directions are sheer poetry, writes Page Laws.