Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.
Gwendolyn Brooks, the great poet of Bronzeville, would have turned 100 years old on June 7. Although she won many honors and accolades before her death in 2000—she was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950 for Annie Allen, her second collection of poems; she served as a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress and, for 32 years, as Illinois's poet laureate; and her work has been widely anthologized—her former student, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana, believes she deserves nothing more than a full year of celebration, throughout Chicago and the entire country.…
Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.
Gwendolyn Brooks, the great poet of Bronzeville, would have turned 100 years old on June 7. Although she won many honors and accolades before her death in 2000—she was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950 for Annie Allen, her second collection of poems; she served as a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress and, for 32 years, as Illinois's poet laureate; and her work has been widely anthologized—her former student, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana, believes she deserves nothing more than a full year of celebration, throughout Chicago and the entire country.…
