Gwendolyn brooks

Doreen St. Félix talks to Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall about Chicago’s cultural scene and the radical legacy of the poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

A new biography celebrates the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote about ordinary black life using extraordinary language.

Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet whose works deal with the everyday life of urban Blacks. She was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950), and in 1968 she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. Learn more about Brooks’s life and work.

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Two new anthologies, “The Golden Shovel Anthology” and “Revise the Psalm,” gather poems and other writings inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks’ work.

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