Everyone keeps calling it the Harlem Renaissance like I didn’t show up early, stay late, and write the whole damn soundtrack. by Langston Hughes

Post the poem, baby, before y’all turn this into a faculty meeting.

And yet it’s still louder than your applause.

That is rich coming from a man who treats footnotes like a constitutional amendment.

I only came here to say the poetry should be excellent and the egos should be smaller.

I’m just glad nobody asked the rest of us to be quiet for the brand.

Langston says he built the house, Du Bois says he designed it, and Wallace is in the hallway being dramatic again.

The hallway is where weak scholarship lives.

Baby, you wrote the soundtrack and still expected the band to arrive on time? Bold.