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Poets Take Langston Hughes Writing/Walking Field Trip
On Wednesday, March 30, seven students participated in a Langston Hughes Writing/Walking Field Trip around Washington. The students -- all poets who have studied Langston Hughes in American Literature -- were accompanied by English Teacher Mr. Joe Ross and Revenue Streams Manager Mrs. Lashieta Rogers.
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The group visited two places where Hughes worked -- Carter G. Woodson's Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and the former office of Washington's Afro-American Newspaper -- as well as two places where he lived -- a house in the 1700 block of S Street, NW and the 12th Street YMCA near U Street, now the Thurgood Marshall Center. Along the way, the students held writing sessions, sitting on curbs, on the steps at the 16th Street Masonic Temple, and on planters near the 12th Street Y.
"At the end of the trip, we gathered on the front stoop of the 12th Street Y and read some of the poems we started writing," said Mr. Ross. "We snapped our fingers for some poems that were already fire, we snapped also for those that are on their way. The city taught us well today."
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