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 ...

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 — Gwendolyn Brooks, who won a Pulitzer Prize for writing candid and compassionate poetry that delved into poverty, racism and drugs among black people, died Sunday. She was 83. Family friend ...

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 ...

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.

Five students from Skokie were recognized this month for their way with words when they were named winners at the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards. The contest, founded by Pulitzer ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 this week, and that birthday is being commemorated with new books, poetry readings, writing contests and even a bus tour through her ...

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 ...

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 ...