<P> First published in 1921 in The Crisis -- official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) -- `` The Negro Speaks of Rivers '' , which became Hughes 's signature poem , was collected in his first book of poetry The Weary Blues ( 1926 ) . Hughes 's first and last published poems appeared in The Crisis ; more of his poems were published in The Crisis than in any other journal . Hughes ' life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s , alongside those of his contemporaries , Zora Neale Hurston , Wallace Thurman , Claude McKay , Countee Cullen , Richard Bruce Nugent , and Aaron Douglas . Except for McKay , they worked together also to create the short - lived magazine Fire ! ! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists . </P>
<P> First published in 1921 in The Crisis -- official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) -- `` The Negro Speaks of Rivers '' , which became Hughes 's signature poem , was collected in his first book of poetry The Weary Blues ( 1926 ) . Hughes 's first and last published poems appeared in The Crisis ; more of his poems were published in The Crisis than in any other journal . Hughes ' life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s , alongside those of his contemporaries , Zora Neale Hurston , Wallace Thurman , Claude McKay , Countee Cullen , Richard Bruce Nugent , and Aaron Douglas . Except for McKay , they worked together also to create the short - lived magazine Fire ! ! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists . </P>
what is the title of langston hughes 's first book of poetry
what is the title of langston hughes 's first book of poetry
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues