You are ready to start submitting your poems, you have more work that needs to be done. Once you have gathered all of your well-revised selection of poems and you are ready to choose from to put together a manuscript of your poetry, you have to know how to format those poems. You can’t just [...]

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902 but was raised primarily by his grandmother, Mary Langston, after his parents separated. When not living with his grandmother, he traveled with his mother from town to town and lived in such places as Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Indiana and New York. He also lived part of [...]