A famous Harlem Renaissance poet was Langston Hughes. He was born in Joplin, Missouri and later moved to Lincoln, Illinois at age thirteen where he began to write his poetry. Later moving to Washington, D.C. in 1924, his fist book of poetry called The Weary Blues was published two years afterwards. Hughes is known for his portrayals of the lives of blacks from the twenties to the sixties. In addition to being a poet, he was a novelist, and writer of short stories and plays. It is ... known that his love of jazz had an influence on his writing as in Montage of a Dream Deferred.