就讀高中的休斯即開始寫詩。隨即獲得讚賞及一些重要黑人知識分子的支援，如：約翰生 (James Weldon Johnson)及杜博斯 (W.E.B. DuBois：也是一位傳奇人物)。當休斯在華盛頓特區的華德曼公園旅館(Wardman Park Hotel) 擔任餐廳雜役時，他把自己的3首詩送給著名評論家林賽 (Vachel Lindsay)。林賽的讚賞為休斯贏得了更廣泛的讀者群。
您曾寫過任何詩作嗎？它的主題是什麼？
這是一個考試。
　

Hughes began writing poetry in high school. He gained some early recognition and support among important black intellectuals such as James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B DuBois (also an "Amazing American"). While working as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., Hughes gave three of his poems to Vachel Lindsay, a famous critic. Lindsay's enthusiastic praise won Hughes an even wider audience.
Have you ever written a poem? What was its subject?
This is a test.

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