In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s landmark book Annie Allen, Brooks Permissions and Crescendo ...

The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people. President Donald Trump paces the field at Daytona ...

Gwendolyn Brooks was the author of the poem about Emmet Till in the Literary Nook earlier this week in the Saipan Tribune. She was the first black woman to hold the role of “Poetry Consultant to the ...

A National Poetry Library exhibition exploring fashion and poetry includes a fabric-adaptation of a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. Shahihda Bari and guests look at her writing. Show more Inner city ...

On Monday, many are honoring her and millions of others for Black Poetry Day ... other notable Black poets include Chicago's own Gwendolyn Brooks, who grew up and attended elementary school ...

Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca: New York: Harper & Row (1968), Myles De Russy, publicity photograph of Gwendolyn Brooks (1968); purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2021 (all ...

In 1950, the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black recipient ... Twenty years later, she donated the proceeds from “Riot”—poems about the assassination of Martin Luther ...

GWENDOLYN BROOKS may not be a household name ... She began writing at age 11. Her first poems were published in a community newspaper as a surprise for her parents. Her first book, “A Street ...

Children can also get an introduction to this innovative author through the biography “A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks” by Alice Faye Duncan. This book includes some of her poems that are well ...