The Year of the Poet XI June 2024

By The Poetry Posse

Foreword
Renowned Poets: Langston Hughes

Diamond

Yes, a human diamond
just to get average folk
to appreciate exceptional
quality. Such a human be
one Langston Hughes.
Born a diamond destined
to be of rare gleaming polished
exceptional excellence,
Such a human was and
remains to be just that,
B: Feb. 01, 1901
Joplin, Missouri, US
D: May 22, 1967
New York City, NY, US
family abducted by slavers
into slavery in the United
States, North America.
By that time so called
Negros were so called
free but in reality, that is
far from true then and now.
He grew to be an artist of
great talent of multi genre
including poetry, writing,
novelist, essayist, dramatist.
raised in the mid-west he
relocated to New York City
as a young man. once he
cultivated his career fine
tuning his god giving gift.
Gaining notoriety, he also
became in civil rights
specifically regarding
the plight of Africans
in America then known as
negroes and were treated
as less then human were
deprived of God given rights.
He eventually became committed
to being an activist in a strong
growing stronger Civil Rights
Movement. He by then living
in Black Harlem as an artist and
activist was well respected in
Harlem and beyond. He was at
the forefront of a then surging
Harlem renaissance in the areas
Langston excelled in.
there is much more that could
and should be covered in all his
multi areas of art and activism
that can not be done here but
one and all should look up a
mass of details concerning his
meaningful life significant contributions.

We artists are a part of an ongoing monthly
publication for more than 10 years
curtesy of our publisher Inner Child
Press headed by William Peters Jr.
himself a poet laureate, the monthly
is titled " Year of the Poet, Poetry
Posse" also feature a theme of the
month for the entire year. This year
we feature notable gifted people who's
various contributions to mankind have
made a difference. This year the
month of June features Langston Hughes.
To obtain copies go to
innerchildpress.com

Also available on Amazon Books. Thank you and be well, safe, happy. Guided on the
straight path.

Shareef Abdur Rasheed
Poet, Artist, Activist

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 196149826X
• ISBN13: 9781961498266
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Inner Child Press, Ltd.
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"