Waywords StudioJul 18

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐‘ต๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’”: ๐‘ต๐’†๐’ˆ๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐‘บ๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’†: ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’”๐’† & ๐‘ญ๐’๐’‚๐’ˆ-๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/negotiating-for-space-compromise-and-flag-planting/

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Show threadLevkaJul 17

#LangstonHughes

"In lighter moments, Hughes stood among black soldiers such as Thaddeus Battle and Bunny Rucker like a schoolboy hearing gossip about a girl he just met. In fact, his laugh often sounded as if he was being tickled. Staying for five months, housed mostly in the Alianza overlooking Madrid, Hughes took on the imagined voice of one of the international brigadesโ€™ black soldiers in two poems written as โ€œPostcard from Spainโ€ (1938) and โ€œLetter from Spainโ€ (1937).

Addressed to fictional family members back home in Alabama, the poems are dated and signed โ€œJohnny.โ€ The letter imagines befriending a โ€œMoorish prisonerโ€ who has been duped into fighting for Franco while the postcard exults a newfound feeling of companionship as โ€œFolks over here donโ€™t treat me/ Like white folks used to do.โ€
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Hughes sent the nearly identical first draft of his โ€œPostcardโ€ as a literal postcard to Louise Thompson, writing it on the back of an image of Hans Beimler, a German Communist Party member who was killed leading forces against Spanish Nationalists in 1936, before Hughes arrived. Though the subject-matter was serious, his sense of humor could not be contained as he playfully signed off Salud, Johnny,' dating the postcard 'Sept. the who? 1937.'"

https://lithub.com/when-langston-hughes-went-to-report-on-the-spanish-civil-war/

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the Spanish Civil War

Canceling a 60-day tour through Russia that he was slated to lead, Langston Hughes left to cover the Spanish Civil War on June 30th, 1937. The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to wโ€ฆ

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Jonathan ShipleyJul 4
O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - and yet must be. - Langston Hughes

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BarbChamberlainJul 4

The right poem for today: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again.

"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seekโ€”
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak."

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Let America Be America Again

(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedโ€” Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no falseโ€ฆ

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damian entwistleJun 1

Today's poem:

Theme for English B
- by Langston Hughes

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/785136047494496256/theme-for-english-b?source=share

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Tom BremerMay 7
Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfieldโ€™s past.
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Langston Hughes Slept Here

A visit to the home of poet Vachel Lindsay in Springfield, Illinois, where Langston Hughes stayed while visiting Springfield.

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Waywords StudioMar 28

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐‘ต๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’…๐’„๐’‚๐’”๐’•: "๐‘น๐’–๐’…๐’š๐’‚๐’“๐’… ๐‘ฒ๐’Š๐’‘๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ'๐’” '๐‘ฐ๐’‡' & ๐‘ฐ๐’“๐’๐’๐’š-๐‘ฏ๐’–๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/kiplings-if-and-irony-hunting

#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #irony #dramaticirony #rudyardkipling #if #scotland #readingstrategies #langstonhughes #suicidesnote #gwendolynbrooks #werealcool

MikeDunnAuthorMar 25

Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Maria De AgostoMar 21
World #Poetry Day #langstonhughes #dylanthomas