There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds holiday and was voted one of

and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country

a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework

how silence implicates us

and her daughter’s unpredictable moods

but its spin is the same old tired story of tragedy

There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds holiday and was voted one ofBack in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word children, to write their own glory. Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be bopping to recite poems at their heros feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom,