Hum 112 Project Paper The Harlem Renaissance Poets XXX XXXX Strayer University HUM 112 2015 XXX XXXX

The Harlem Renaissance Poets The Harlem Renaissance, notably deemed as the New Negro Movement by Alain Locke, aggrandized the creativity in literature and music from the African American culture. Much of the art from this era mostly portrayed their experiences of inequality and their search for better quality of life in the North and Midwest, henceforth the Great Migration. Some of the most prominent names during this time was African American poets Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, both playing an essential role to the literary movement. As stated by McKay, their poems are full of hushes, whispers, sighs, songs, tongues, throats, wails, moans, voices, speech, music, hymns,...