Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers.".
Mary Jane Nealon chronicles her experiences as a nurse, recounting what she has learned about compassion and caring while helping others in remote areas, in the first AIDS ward in New York city, and while tending to her dying parents.
A biography of the poet who devoted almost fifty years to writing about what it feels like to be African American and to encouraging the careers of young African American writers.
