[Langston Hughes interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.

Originally broadcast January 18, 1959 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.

Recording of an interview with Hughes features a discussion on the theme of love in poetry. Hughes also reads poetry from his Selected poems and also some traditional blues poetry.

Florence Becker Lennon.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1959

Sound recording

PCR419A

American folksongs of protest /read by Lennon --The bourgeois blues /Ledbetter read by Lennon --I got those little white schoolhouse blues /Lennon.Langston Hughes reading:The weary blues --Good morning, blues --When I got up this morning, blues walkin 'round my bed --Did you ever see a one-eyed woman cry? --Too blue --Little old letter --Out of work --Could be --Mississippi levee --Morning after --Southern blues --Reverie on the Harlem River --Wake. --Me and my captain /Lawrence Gellert read by Lennon.

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