Poems such as "The Panther and the Lash" appear in his collection The Weary Blues.
He wrote the libretto for an opera about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, The Troubled Island. A young man named Roger attempts to snatch the purse of a middle-aged widow and is rewarded with nothing but kindness in this man's short story "Thank You, Ma'am", while his other short fiction includes a series of works about a man named Simple and "Laughing to Keep from Crying." Poems such as "The Panther and the Lash" appear in his collection The Weary Blues. For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of "Montage of a Dream Deferred" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
He wrote the libretto for an opera about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, The Troubled Island.
Langston {Hughes}