Langston Hughes is one of my all-time favourite poets. My seventh grade English teacher (the only PoC I ever had teach one of my junior or senior high classes) introduced me to him and I will love her forever for it (and because she was amaaaaaazing). Dudley Randall is also fantastic - if you haven't read it, you should at least check out his "A Poet Is Not a Jukebox".
I remember having to do an assignment on a poet of our choice in ninth grade English and I was so disappointed that my English teacher that year didn't know who Langston Hughes was. She didn't want to let me use him because she'd never heard of him and I was so mad. She eventually said yes, but if she hadn't I would have taken it to the Junior high principal and then to the Senior high/overall principal if I'd had to.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
cat-sanctuary.livejournal.com - (no subject)![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkferengi - (no subject)
(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-21 03:04 pm (UTC)I remember having to do an assignment on a poet of our choice in ninth grade English and I was so disappointed that my English teacher that year didn't know who Langston Hughes was. She didn't want to let me use him because she'd never heard of him and I was so mad. She eventually said yes, but if she hadn't I would have taken it to the Junior high principal and then to the Senior high/overall principal if I'd had to.
~ty
(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-24 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-25 05:55 pm (UTC)