Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination. By Holly Bass Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by ...
On the occasion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 100th birthday in 2017, in an essay titled “Against Miracles” the poet Evie Shockley wrote, “I urge poets, lovers of poetry, and teachers of poetry to keep ...
A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, My first experience with writing a fan letter didn’t go well. It was to the children’s writer and ...
Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004), “To Gwen with Love” (1971), Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc (image credit the estate of Jeff Donaldson, courtesy Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York) Comprising more ...
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On what would have been renowned writer Gwendolyn Brooks’ 101 st birthday, the City of Chicago received a special gift. On June 7, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame unveiled a beautiful bronze statue ...
Tacuma R. Roeback is the Managing Editor for the Chicago Defender. His journalism, non-fiction, and fiction have appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta ...
The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...
In 1950, the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, in any category, for her second collection, “Annie Allen.” Twenty years later, she donated the ...
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