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 hometown ...
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 ...
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 images ...