Slangston Hughes is a National Slam Champion based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Director of Youth Poetry at Dew More Baltimore and former lead coach and current program manager of the world champion (2016 & 2018) Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team. His work has been published in the Poets ‘ America anthology via the Kratz Creative Writing Center. Slangston published his first collaborative literary work “Writers’ Alchemy with prosaist Devlon E. Waddell as part of E.M.B.O.D.Y.  In 2017 Slangston Hughes (Victor Frantz Rodgers 2nd) released a collection of his poetry that spans nearly the past 2 decades. "Slanguage Arts & Griot Glimpses" is both a chronicling of one individual’s growth as a writer over a 15 year period (2002-2017) of poetic evolution as well as a record of some of this era’s most pressing most pressing sociopolitical issues and happenings as witnessed and responded to in arguably some of the most radical and profoundly truthful incantations ever written down via the medium of poetry in a manner where the political and personal merge. Slanguage Arts & Griot Glimpses is very much "a research guide for the soul." In addition, founder of Speak Out: Slammageddon. Slangston was also a member of the Slammageddon Baltimore slam team that won the 2016 National Poetry Slam Ink Slam 2019 and Southern Fried Slam in in 2017 2018 2019 & 2022.  

"I have told him that if he was around when the Last Poets first started he could've rolled with us!" -Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets....