Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine.
Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine. The poem unites an observing narrator and a performer who works in a "dull pallor of an old gas light." The performer works on Lenox Avenue and sings a song of despair "far into the night" but is able to drain anxiety through music and escape to bed, sleeping "like a rock or man that's dead." For 10 points—name this 1923 poem about a Harlem nightclub piano player by Langston Hughes.
Winning the poet his first poetry prize from the National Urban League, this poem first appeared in Opportunity Magazine.
{The Weary Blues}