The 10 Most Anthologized Langston Hughes Poems

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Langston Hughes is one of our most popular poets, and over the decades, editors solidified Hughes's top 10 most anthologized poems.

Here’s a look at 362 appearances of Hughes’s 10 most anthologized poems.

Here’s a breakdown of the appearances of Hughes’s 10 most anthologized poems in 105 collections.

The poems in our dataset of top 10 Hughes selections cover a 95-year period, 1925 - 2020.

The majority of Hughes poems appear in primarily African American anthologies.

Explore this interactive bibliography, which focuses on Hughes’s most anthologized poems and decade of publication.