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There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds holiday the books made the rareBack 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,