LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE Verna Taylor   LANGSTON'S VOICE Langston's voice is an oboe voice as jazzy as a clarinet song deep as a river ancient as a heart ancient as an African heart Langston's voice is a harpist's hymn as haunting as a tribal choir endless as a desert strong as a drum strong as a griot's drum to the sorrow-ships heaving on the seas Langston's voice was an oboe voice as jazzy as a clarinet song deep as the river and ancient as his African heart...   Verna Taylor received an MA in Linguistics from the University at Buffalo. She won Poet of the Year Award in Montreal, Quebec and her play, Oasis, was produced by DramaLab in a workshop performance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has taught at SUNY/Buffalo, McGill University, The University of Maryland, and also in Saudi Arabia, Korea and Malaysia. She is a re-emerging poet who currently lives, writes and teaches near College Park, MD.   Published in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.