To get you started, we’re focusing on 10 of the most powerful Langston Hughes poems. Consider this your introduction to the incredible potency of the celebrated poet’s words and their rhythms.

Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman including Olivia Colman, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave. Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the ...

Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time. “These powerful poems show the enormous impact coronavirus has had on children’s lives, as well as their strength, resilience, ...

“Our metaphor container ship is dry-docked”) nicely counterpoint powerful poems of grief, such as May Day in Marbella: “ ... Time/ slipped and the sea oh my God, going for an Oscar/ with its ...