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Langston Hughes appears in the Epstein files exclusively in connection with a poetry video project that Bill Clinton participated in. The mentions reference episodes of a planned documentary series featuring Clinton, Herbie Hancock, and Sonia Sanchez discussing Hughes's poem "Harlem."
Hughes is mentioned as the subject of a poetry appreciation project, not as a participant or associate. The documents describe a video series called "Verse Video" that was in production for a 2017 launch, featuring celebrities and public figures discussing classic American poems. Hughes appears alongside other deceased poets like Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg whose works were being featured. The mentions consistently describe the same project across multiple document pages.
Key Highlights
- •All mentions relate to a single poetry video project featuring Hughes's poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred")
- •Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, and Sonia Sanchez were scheduled to discuss Hughes's work for the video series
- •The project also included children from Promise Academy performing or appearing in the Hughes episode
- •Hughes appears in document lists alongside dozens of other canonical poets from various eras and nationalities
- •The mentions span House Oversight Committee documents and investigation files, likely related to Clinton's activities that were tangentially documented
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5 mentionsSource: DOJ EFTA Records
ot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heat
Page: EFTA00008017 →ot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heat
Page: EFTA00008017 →ot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen Ginsberg • Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heat
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
nce Project; On William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say”: Woody Allen, Jane Hirshfield, Rafael Campo and a chorus of couples young and old; On Langston Hughes’s “Harlem”: President Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and a chorus of children from Promise Academy; On Allen Ginsberg’s Hymmnn from “Kaddi
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
nce Project; On William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say”: Woody Allen, Jane Hirshfield, Rafael Campo and a chorus of couples young and old; On Langston Hughes’s “Harlem”: President Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and a chorus of children from Promise Academy; On Allen Ginsberg’s Hymmnn from “Kaddi
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. Poetry in Ame
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028946 --- PAGE BREAK --- Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. • Poetry in A
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. Poetry in Ame
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. Poetry in Ame
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
ew production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop, Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. • Poetry in A
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EFTA00678464.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00678464
economic implications Justice Elena Kagan has agreed to tape a reading in September on something concerning justice and so has Henry Louis Gates (Langston Hughes) and Samantha Power is in, and are getting closer to Robert Di Niro (Robert Creeley), Matt Damon (Frost), John Lithgow (Stevens), Yo Yo Ma. Harvar
EFTA00395286.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00395286
things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison "We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how." - Langston Hughes "I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom." - Thomas Edison Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arca
EFTA00839568.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00839568
pany, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on EFTA00839568 Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop Nas on Whitman, and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. • Poetry in
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EFTA00839615.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00839615
roduction company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Carl Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop Nas on Whitman and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. • Poetry in A
EFTA00646508.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00646508
tions: Poems turn into songs, a magazine becomes a set of recipe cards, and a hotel is built from a submarine. s iVARI-COLORED SONGS: A Tribute to Langston Hughes Album VARI-COLORED SONGS: A Tribute to Langston Hughes Album by Leyla McCalla PACategory Music g b_ocation New Orleans, LA Poems that sing Wha
EFTA00700453.pdf
1 mentionEFTA00700453
production company, Verse Video), is now fully funded and in production, with episodes featuring Bill Clinton Herbie Hancock and Sonia Sanchez on Langston Hughes, Frank Gehry on Cad Sandburg, Katie Couric on Elizabeth Bishop Nas on Whitman and many more scheduled for nationwide launch in 2017. • Poetry in Am
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EFTA01961819.pdf
1 mentionEFTA01961819
s economic implications Justice Elena Kagan has agreed to tape a reading in September on something concerning justice and so has Henry Louis Gates (Langston Hughes) and Samantha Power is in, and are getting closer to Robert Di Niro (Robert Creeley), Matt Damon (Frost), John Lithgow (Stevens), Yo Yo Ma. Harvar
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
nce Project; On William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say”: Woody Allen, Jane Hirshfield, Rafael Campo and a chorus of couples young and old; On Langston Hughes’s “Harlem”: President Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and a chorus of children from Promise Academy; On Allen Ginsberg’s Hymmnn from “Kaddi
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1 mentionEFTA01962905
s economic implications Justice Elena Kagan has agreed to tape a reading in September on something concerning justice and so has Henry Louis Gates (Langston Hughes) and Samantha Power is in, and are getting closer to Robert Di Niro (Robert Creeley), Matt Damon (Frost), John Lithgow (Stevens), Yo Yo Ma. Harvar
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