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Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth)(born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kan., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. poet. Reared in the Chicago slums, Brooks published her first poem at age 13. With Annie Allen (1949), a loosely connected series of poems about growing up in Chicago, she became the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. The Bean Eaters (1960) contains some of her best verse. Among her other books are In the Mecca (1968), the autobiographical Report from Part One (1972), Primer for Blacks (1980), Young Poets' Primer (1981), and Children Coming Home (1991). Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) (1917– ) poet, writer; born in Topeka, Kans. Based in Chicago, she graduated from Wilson Junior College there (1936) and was publicity director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago (1930s). She taught at many institutions and succeeded Carl Sandburg as poet laureate of Illinois (1968). Her verse narrative Annie Allen (1949) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African-American woman (1950). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The conference, which took place in September of 2004, had the stated goal of regenerating the black poetic movement; the film about it provides an intriguing exploration of the wild blooms of poesis, those "furious flower[s]" that Gwendolyn Brooks references in "The Second Sermon on the Warpland" that yield the Center and conference its name. Once people read my next book, Harlem Hustle, I hope they will be irresistibly drawn to the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes and will become familiar with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Written with the ambitiousness of Homer and reminiscent of the way Gwendolyn Brooks juxtaposes contextual realities to societal norms, Derek Walcott's epic The Prodigal: A Poem is an engaging intellectual voyage written in three parts and 18 cantos, presenting imagery-driven landscapes from America to Europe to the Caribbean. |
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