Theme for English B Resources

Check out his biography and more.

This site boasts a comprehensive biography, plus a cool timeline!

Check out what PBS has to say about our guy.

Check out this documentary on Hughes.

Here is the Library of Congress's video biography of Hughes.

Here's a jazzy video for "Theme for English B."

Here's one interpretation of "Theme for English B."

Hughes reads and talks about "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Check out some audio from The Poetry Foundation about Hughes and his poetry.

Here's a happy picture of Hughes.

Here's Hughes at what might have been the speaker of this poem's age.

Get all of Hughes' poems in handy book form!

Here's some kid-friendly poetry from Hughes.

This movie looks at the Harlem Renaissance, with Hughes as a character.

This is a movie for which Hughes helped to write the screenplay.