This June marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks. The celebrated poet was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In commemoration, award-winning ...

CHICAGO -- Wednesday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, a Chicago Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Biographer Angela Jackson and Brooks' daughter Nora Brooks Blakely joined ...

The University of Chicago will celebrate the legacy of acclaimed poet Gwendolyn Brooks with events throughout the spring, including a major gathering of scholars, writers and musicians from April 6-8.

This past weekend, Illinois Humanities and the Poetry Foundation hosted the 2019 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, recognizing the work of K through 12 students across the city and state. The ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The legacy of poet Gwendolyn Brooks is being celebrated all this year, which marks the centennial of her birth. Brooks is regarded as the most highly influential and widely read poets ...

It wasn’t the chant you might expect from an elegantly attired crowd at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Rubloff Auditorium: “We real cool! We left school! We lurk late! We strike straight!” But then ...

The famous Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks is now immortal in a tiny format. The U.S. Postal Service recently issued a stamp in her honor. Gwendolyn Brooks takes her place on a sheet of stamps along ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A statue of poet Gwendolyn Brooks will be formally unveiled Thursday at the South Side park named in her honor. Brooks lived in Chicago nearly all her life. In 1950, she became the ...

When she was a young girl growing up on the South Side, Gwendolyn Brooks would sit on her back porch and write, her daughter said. It was in that quiet space that Brooks could let her mind float away ...

Gwendolyn Brooks lived in Topeka for just a few weeks after she was born. But the iconic poet – Brooks was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize — still has relatives in Kansas, ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. By A.O. Scott Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The ...

A dream team of Chicago's young black creatives put together a multimedia homage to Gwendolyn Brooks. Photo: Julia Miller/Manual Cinema This weekend, Chicago’s centennial celebration of its patron ...