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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas to Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. Brooks' mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and her father, the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given up his ambition to attend medic...read more

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Kitchenette
Old Laughter
Beverly Hills, Chicago
We Real Cool
The Preacher Ruminates
Song of the Front Yard
The Children of the Poor (Sonnet No.2)
A Song In The Front Yard
Kitchenette Building
The Mother
An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct
Beyond the Blues a4
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet 2
Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
A Sunset of the City
The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks - Kichenette Building
Song in the Front Yard, A
The Lovers of the Poor
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Preacher Ruminates Behind The Sermon
Gwendolyn Brooks - Three Sonnets From "The Children Of The Poor"
Gwendolyn Brooks
One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This
Essential American Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets
Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
Sadie And Maud
The Vacant Lot
The Sermon On The Warpland
Of DeWitt Williams on his way to the Lincoln Cemetery
The Independent Man
Queen Of The Blues
My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
Riot
The Children Of the Poor
Introduction To "We Real Cool"
The Lovers of the Poor By Gwendolyn Brooks
Malcolm X
A Man Of The Middle Class
The Parents: People Like Our Marriage Maxie And Andrew
Matthew Cole
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith
Leaves From A Loose-Leaf War Diary
The Crazy Woman
Inspirations Of Cool Pt.1
The Children Of The Poor- Sonnet Two
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story by Gwendolyn Brooks (read by D.A. Powell)
The Near-Johannesburg Boy (Continued)
Bio
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool: The Pool Players, Seven Of The Golden Shovel
My Little 'Bout-Town Gal
Kid Bruin
Obituary For A Living Lady
Do Not Be Afraid Of No
"the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem of the Day: the mother
The Mother [#]
Kichenette Building
Poem of the Day: A Sunset of the City
"A Sunset of the City" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem of the Day: when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
The Preacher Ruminates Behind The Sermon
Weaponed Woman
Introduction
INTRODUCTOION
The Wall
The Rites For Cousin Vit
"Pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht On Alps"
The Ghost At The Quincy Club
Gang Girls
"A Song in the Front Yard"
Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind
"We Real Cool"
Speech To The Young Speech To The Progress- Toward
051 Gwendolyn Brooks_The Mother
The Children of the Poor (Sonnet No. 2)
The Old Marrieds
The Egg Boiler
Poem of the Day: The Lovers of the Poor
052 Gwendolyn Brooks_We Real Cool
When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
Introduction To Riot 1983
Introduction To A Man Of The Middle Class 1983
A Sunset of the City By Gwendolyn Brooks
Riot 1983
Introduction 1983
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
The Rights For Cousin Vit
to the young, who want to die
"A Sunset of the City"
Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
Sonnets From Children Of The Poor
Introduction To A Man Of The Middle Class (1983)
Introduction (1983)
A Man Of The Middle Class (1983)
Introduction To Riot (1983)
Riot (1983)
We Real Cool Academy of American Poets
Gwendolyn Brooks: Two Poems
Mimi Ayers reading Gwendolyn Brooks's poem The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon
Song In The Front Yard
Monitor Bonds
We Real Cool + Commentary
A Poet’s Work In Community
She's a fighter
'pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht on Alps'
"The Lovers of the Poor" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Nicole Mitchell & Haki R. Madhubuti
"when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story" by Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Doug Powell
Three Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Kitchenette - Gwendolyn Brooks
Summertime Sadness
From Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of former poet laureate Brooks, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded January 19, 1961, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Three Sonnets From "The Children Of The Poor"
Reading from her poetry
Garbageman:The Man with the Orderly Mind
A Man Of The Middle Class 1983
We Real Cool: The Pool Players, Seven Of The Golden Shovel
The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
"of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Daily - Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward
Gwendolyn Brooks Reading Her Poetry
Ballad Of Pearl May Lee
Introduction To "The Lovers Of The Poor"
Introduction To "When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story"
Introduction To "Riot"
Essential American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks
When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story ft. Ruby Dee
Introduction To "Ballad Of Pearl May Lee"
The Ghost At Quincy Club
Pygmies Are Pygmies Still, Though Percht On Alps
We Real Cool with Commentary (read by Gwendolyn Brooks)
We Real Cool ft. Ensemble
The Parents: People Like Our Marriage
(Introduction)
We Real Cool 2
Obituary For a Leading Lady
'do Not Be Afraid of No'
"Kitchenette Building"
Old Mary
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