TWA Poet: Langston Hughes

1901-1967

It's the birthday of the man who said of himself: "I like Tristan, goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike Aida, parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges." That's the poet Langston Hughes, born in Joplin, Missouri (1902). His parents got divorced when he was a ba…