PagineA leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes brought the rhythms of jazz and blues into poetry and wrote about Black American life with pride and tenderness. His first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his earlier magazine poems are public domain in the US.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Yes. Langston Hughes’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 5 of them here or as a flip book.
The Weary Blues (1926), Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951).