Gwendolyn Brooks poses with her first book of poems, A Street in Bronzeville. In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Hers was a Pulitzer in poetry, ...

On the occasion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 100th birthday in 2017, in an essay titled “Against Miracles” the poet Evie Shockley wrote, “I urge poets, lovers of poetry, and teachers of poetry to keep ...

Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004), “To Gwen with Love” (1971), Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc (image credit the estate of Jeff Donaldson, courtesy Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York) Comprising more ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 this week, and that birthday is being commemorated with new books, poetry readings, writing contests and even a bus tour through her hometown ...

Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination. By Holly Bass Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by ...

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Chicago's long history as a center for poetry owes much to Gwendolyn Brooks, whose luminous and wrenching works largely depicted the Black experience in the city. Chicago Tonight: Black Voices is ...

It’s a sad irony that the organization with a storehouse of some of the finest words ever written in English, some 30,000 volumes going back to T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock” and then-undiscovered works by ...

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Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. By A.O. Scott Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The ...