In 1950, the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, in any category, for her second collection, “Annie Allen.” Twenty years later, she donated the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Illinois Humanities, in partnership with Brooks Permissions, the Poetry Foundation, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, is proud to announce the ...

In a darkened room, four overhead projectors snap on. A picture of a street in Bronzeville slides onto a movie screen. Behind one of the projectors, Jyreika Guest and Eunice Woods drop two paper ...

Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more. Photos via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, Flickr/Burns Library, ...

This June marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks. The celebrated poet was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In commemoration, award-winning ...

When she was a young girl growing up on the South Side, Gwendolyn Brooks would sit on her back porch and write, her daughter said. It was in that quiet space that Brooks could let her mind float away ...

Five students from Skokie were recognized this month for their way with words when they were named winners at the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards. The contest, founded by Pulitzer ...

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 ...

A form called the Golden Shovel honors the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and you just need a newspaper to get started. By Leah Umansky Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition. With ...