Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...

The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people. Donald Trump Makes English the Official Language ...

She read two poems, "A Song in the Front Yard" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "I, Too" by Langston Hughes, earning first place honors. Garcia will move on to compete in the state competition on March 14.

Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. Narrated by her daughter Nora ...

Tupelo Press, a North Adams-based publisher that highlights the voices of marginalized writers. On Feb. 9, it announced that it would not comply with the National Endowment for the Arts’ new ...

The traditional epicenter of the city’s Black community has been upended in recent years by the arrival of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.

Harsh knew writers like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston personally. Their work is also housed in the Vivian Harsh Research Collection, located at Chicago ...

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters for decades. Her poetry, writes Adrienne Rich, “holds up a mirror to the American experience entire, its dreams, self-delusions and ...