Talk:The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Not first poem publishe in the Crisis
I deleted the phrase that this poem was the first poem published in The Crisis, because it is factually false. Jessica Fausset, for example, published a poem ("Rondeau")as early as April 1912 (and hers was not the first). You can see in Google books the January 1920 issue, for example, and see that it contains the poem "Oriflamme" by Jessica Fausset and "Calling Dreams" by Georgia Douglas Johnson. There are other earlier issues of the Crisis in Google books which also contain poems.AnthroMimus (talk) 20:15, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That line was misleading. It was not meant to imply that this poem by Hughes was the first poem The Crisis ever published, but that it was the first Hughes himself published in that journal. I've corrected it. --22:43, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

deleting last line "the negro that speaks of rivers"
I deleted the above quoted line from the poem, because it symply is not in the text. No other online source contains the line either. Bovine S. Enzo (talk) 12:43, 6 February 2021 (UTC)