URAC Presenter: Hering explores Langston Hughes' jazz poetry Share on: Posted on Friday, April 16, 2021 Timothy Hering, one of the eight select podium presenters to be featured at this year’s Undergraduate Research and Arts Celebration (URAC) on Wednesday, April 21, will discuss his senior honors capstone project, “Jammin’ with Langston Hughes: A Symphony of Truth in Black America.” Hering’s combined English and music project explores how Langston Hughes—an American writer, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance and innovator of jazz poetry—integrates jazz into the sociopolitical discourse in his poetry, not only as a lyric but through the jazz aesthetic and as a recognizable form of music.