Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.

Contributors have included Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, among others.

In high school he was given his first oil paints and learned about his aunt Bessye Bearden's art salons, which stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended.

As white people began going to Harlem to watch black dancers, according to Langston Hughes: " The lindy-hoppers at the Savoy even began to practice acrobatic routines, and to do absurd things for the entertainment of the whites, that probably never would have entered their heads to attempt for their own effortless amusement.

* 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer ( b. 1902 )

Due to his cognomen Afer, Terence has long been identified with Africa and heralded as the first poet of the African diaspora by generations of writers, including Juan Latino, Phyllis Wheatley, Alexandre Dumas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.

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The white photographer and writer, Carl Van Vechten, a supporter of the Harlem Renaissance ( 1920s – 30s ), provoked controversy in the black community with the title of his novel Nigger Heaven ( 1926 ), wherein the usage increased sales ; of the controversy, Langston Hughes wrote:

While in Chicago he visited the American Negro Exhibition with Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps and Claude McKay.

On November 26, 1960, Wright talked enthusiastically about Daddy Goodness with Langston Hughes and gave him the manuscript.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

For settings of poems by Langston Hughes and Sara Teasdale, see also this note.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Austin, Larry: Variations: Beyond Pierrot ( 1995 ; voice, small ensemble, live computer-processed sound, and computer-processed prerecorded tape ); Schachter, Michael: " Pierrot ( Heart )" ( 2011 ; voice and piano ; text by Langston Hughes above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

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Artists ' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.

Both Hurston and Langston Hughes claimed to like Imitation of Life, though both reversed their opinion after Sterling Allen Brown lambasted both the book and the first film in a review entitled " Imitation of Life: Once a Pancake ", a reference to a line in the first film.

In just three years from 1919 – 1922 the Defender also attracted the writing talents of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

As his career progressed, Patchen continued to push himself into more and more experimental styles and forms, developing, along with writers such as Langston Hughes and Kenneth Rexroth, what came to be known as jazz poetry.

Langston Hughes relays in the " Negro Ghetto " ( 1931 ) and " The Heart of Harlem " ( 1945 ): " The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone / And the streets are long and wide ,/ But Harlem ’ s much more than these alone ,/ Harlem is what ’ s inside.

If she could never be white like her mother and sister, neither could she ever be black in quite the same way that Langston Hughes and his characters were black.

Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Poetry by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Charles Bukowski has focused on the natural beauty of Secaucus.

Noted author and member of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes described Louis's effect in these terms:

* Langston Hughes, poet and writer, for whom Langston Hughes Broadway in Joplin is named

The story is set in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and the major characters include Eddie Wesley, a Harlem writer ; Aurelia, the woman Eddie loves, who becomes a professor at Cornell University ; and a number of real-life historical figures, including Richard Nixon and Langston Hughes.

* Much of the cast has some connection to the Buffyverse: Benson and Marsters obviously played prominent characters on Buffy ; David Fury was a writer / producer and Rupert Cole was a production assistant on Buffy ; Jeff Ricketts guest starred on both Buffy and Angel as a Watchers ' Council member ; Andy Hallett starred on Angel as Lorne / The Host ; Grant Langston guest starred on an episode of Angel ; and Tressa di Figlia was married to Buffy cast member Nicholas Brendon.

Her ability as a writer was recognized by Du Bois, who put her in charge of a column in the magazine, where her brief included writing critiques of works by the literary giants of the day, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy Parker.

The Langston Field is a fictional device featured in the CoDominium series of science-fiction novels, initiated by SF writer Jerry Pournelle.

* John Langston Gwaltney, African-American writer and anthropologist

Meltzer co-authored with Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes, A Pictorial History of the Negro in America published in 1956.

A writer, she had a long association with the poet Langston Hughes and they collaborated on a proposal for a documentary about Harlem culture.

Shortly afterwards, Langston George left the group, and the remaining members continued as a quartet, now billed as Gladys Knight & the Pips.

* Langston RL & JA Powell ( 1975 ) The earwigs of California ( Order Dermaptera ).

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By the end of the eighteenth century the church was said to be in disrepair, and in 1825 James Haughton Langston ( 1796 – 1863 ), who had the living of Churchill & Sarsden, and who owned the Sarsden estate and most of Churchill, built a new one higher up the hill in what had become the centre of the village.

Bizarre had guest star performers during its run including Steve Allen, Frances Bay, a pre-Royal Canadian Air Farce Luba Goy, Victoria Jackson, Murray Langston ( as The Unknown Comic ), Howie Mandel, Pat Morita, Dave Thomas, Willie Tyler & Lester, Marc Weiner, Henny Youngman and others.

After the war, he returned to Atlanta and began working as a merchant with the firm Langston, Crane & Hammock and later he worked the real estate trade with a prominent office on Whitehall St at Five Points.

Songwriters included Langston Huges, Charlie Ipcar & Maxine Parshall, Dale Cohen & Hugh McGuinness, Bob Norman, Mark Charles & Sheila Ritter, Peter Berryman, Elyse Crystall, Sandee Swantek, Martha Koester, Paul Emery, Tony Heriza, Judith Levine & Laura Liben, Mike Rawson, Bev Grant, and Luci Murphy.

It is revealed that she enjoys the poet Langston Hughes, and that she is left-handed ( L & O: " Slave ").