Langston Hughes' "Dreams"
- Author
- Sean Johnson
- Published
- Wed 26 Feb 2025
- Episode Link
- https://dailypoempod.substack.com/p/langston-hughes-dreams
Today’s poem plays nicely against Hughes’ more famous meditation on “dreams” (the deferred kind, in “Harlem”). Rather than emphasizing the danger of a dream under pressure, here he stresses the importance of a dream to men and women under pressure. Happy reading.
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