5 Questions on Langston Hughes – MLK Link
- Jan 5, 2015
- 1 min read
By Tim Peeler
In his new book Origins of the Dream, NC State English professor Jason Miller makes a tangible connection between the long suspected but never proven link between the poetry of Harlem Renaissance hero Langston Hughes and the prose of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
This is Miller’s second book on the poetry of Hughes. His first, Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture, was published in 2011. Miller, a former college basketball player at Division II Nebraska-Kearney, has been an associate professor of English at NC State since 2005.
