Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1172
Points per Word
0.000427
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This book describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer throughout the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."