Gwendolyn Brooks Reading

Intro poem by Haki R. Madhubuti
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen making her the first African American to receive the Pulitzer. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress-the first black woman to hold that position-and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness, especially those from the 1960s and later, with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period.
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