She was, after all, Gwendolyn Brooks, a kind of mother to a group of ... through her involvement with a special celebration of her work at Northeastern Illinois. At that program, Smith performed ...

Gwendolyn Brooks's first kitchenette apartment still ... Brooks never lived in the Mecca, but she did work there for a few months after college in the mid-1930s. It was probably the strangest ...

One year, Toni Morrison was the speaker, and the author told the audience she probably couldn't have done what she did without Gwendolyn Brooks' example and work to show her it was possible.

Gwendolyn Brooks started her writing career at 11 when ... drug rehabilitation centers and prisons, reading her work. Throughout February, we'll spotlight a different African-American pioneer ...

Gwendolyn Brooks’ first (and only) novel, “Maud Martha,” came to me as a stack of photocopied pages from a local shop in Harvard Square. The book was out of print and available only in ...

Brooks remained active in her work—travelling and giving readings—up until her death in December 2000. Gwendolyn Brooks understood the privilege of being ordinary long before it acquired the ...

Would you describe Brooks as a civil rights activist? Gwendolyn Brooks was a serious poet and writer whose work was always on the frontlines of black activist thought. She was an activist.

We pay lip service to their honors and accolades but let their actual work languish unexamined or unexplored. Brooksday, an annual celebration of the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, was created to ...

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community continues at the Morgan Library (225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan) through June 5. The exhibition was organized by Nicholas Caldwell ...

The amazing thing about Gwendolyn Brooks was that she continued to be that figure for black poets through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, because she never stood still in her own work." Brooks was born ...