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Branching Out New Orleans: E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes

Dancing with the Dreamer

May 11, 2006 | 7:00 pm

Langston Hughes

What are Langston’s lessons? An examination of the work of Langston Hughes will help you learn more about America. It will help you explore the tough tapestry of race. His work will make you look into the mirror and see yourself. Are you ready? Who was this man who taught us how to dream? The life and work of Langston Hughes echoes the social transformation of America from the 1920s to the early 1960s. How did he put blues and jazz into his words? What was his secret? Come dance with the dreamer and discover how he changed literature.

Location Jefferson Parish Library East Bank Regional Library 4747 West Napoleon Ave. Metairie, LA Sponsored By Poets House

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Date:
May 11, 2006
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7:00 pm
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