Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Laureate of Illinois, reads poems at a public event in Chicago in the 1980s. Excerpted from a reel of loosely assembled Super 8 footage shot by Bill Stamets, labeled "Dangerous Chemicals - Daley - Art Jones - Gwendolyn Brooks." | Chicago Film Archives
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When Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950, one unimaginative headline read, "A 32-year-old housewife and part-time secretary has won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for “Annie Allen,’ a ballad of Chicago Negro life." She was best known for her most famous poem, "We Real Cool" (1950). You can listen to her explain what she was thinking when she wrote it in this clip from May 3, 1983 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Here is the poem: The Pool Players. Seven at the Golde
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"Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet's Work in Community"celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000). Though Brooks is generally well-known for her poetry, few recognize her expansive social and political impact. The first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, Brooks led a decades-long career marked by her engagement with struggles for racial justice. Her early writings centered around the people she grew up with and observed on the streets of Bronzeville, a p
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