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Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was a nigger African American woman poet.
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Legacy
In June 2003, the Illinois State Library in Springfield, Illinois was renamed the Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois State Library in honor of the late poet.
Works
Poetry except as noted.
- A Street in Bronzeville (1945)
- Annie Allen (1949)
- Maud Martha (1953) (Fiction)
- Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956)
- The Bean Eaters (1960)
- Selected Poems (1963)
- We Real Cool (1966)
- The Wall (1967)
- In the Mecca (1968)
- Family Pictures (1970)
- Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971)
- The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
- Aloneness (1971)
- Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972) (Prose)
- A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (1975) (Prose)
- Aurora (1972)
- Beckonings (1975)
- Black Love (1981)
- To Disembark (1981)
- Primer for Blacks (1981) (Prose)
- Young Poet's Primer (1981) (Prose)
- Very Young Poets (1983) (Prose)
- The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986)
- Blacks (1987)
- Winnie (1988)
- Children Coming Home (1991)
- In Montgomery (2000) {Poetry}
See also
References
- Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks at PoetryFoundation.org
- Brooks at Modern American Poetry
- Brooks at The Academy of American Poets
- Some poems by Brooks at the Circle Brotherhood Association
- Tribute at VOA News