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Chicago Park District Winter 2008 Search Entire Site Events News for Home Programs Events In The News ... Indoor Pools Gwendolyn Brooks Park Park Description Fomerly known as Hyacinth Park. History Originally known as Hyacinth Park, Gwendolyn Brooks Park was renamed in 2004 as part of an effort by the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners to recognize the contributions of Chicago women. The Park District first established the site in 1970, acquiring just over an acre of land in the Kenwood neighborhood. Between 1995 and 1998, additional land doubled the park's size. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000), one of Chicago’s most acclaimed and beloved poets, received many awards and honors including a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Topeka Kansas, Gwendolyn and her family moved to Chicago when she was an infant. She exhibited a talent for writing at a young age, and published her first poem in Childhood Magazine in 1930. After graduating from Englewood High School, she attended Wilson Junior College. Brooks was a prolific writer of poetry— by the mid 1930s she had already published more than one hundred poems, many appearing in the Chicago Defender , where Gwendolyn served as adjunct staff member. She met prominent writers such as Langston Hughes who encouraged her writing career. She also received support from a group of writers affiliated with

62. Project MUSE Who will study war no more, but the blessings of the spirit evoked in the world as did gwendolyn brooks, whose word was poetry itself, and whose being was http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v023/23.4jackson.html

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67. 01.11.01 - Personal Papers Of Pulitzer-winning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Join Archiv Berkeley Personal papers of poet gwendolyn E. brooks, . NOTE A memorial reading for gwendolyn brooks will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/01/11_brook.html

UC Berkeley NEWS SEARCH NEWS HOME ARCHIVES EXTRAS MEDIA RELATIONS Press Releases Image Downloads Contacts Personal papers of Pulitzer-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks join archives at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library 11 Jan 2001 By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations A print quality image of Brooks is available for download Gwendolyn E. Brooks Courtesy: The Bancroft Library Berkeley - Personal papers of poet Gwendolyn E. Brooks, the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, are now part of the African American writers collection at the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library. Brooks gave her blessing to the UC Berkeley acquisition before she died on Dec. 3 at the age of 83. Brooks packed the campus's Zellerbach Hall for a 1974 poetry reading and again in 1997 for a reading in Wheeler Auditorium. Some 700 people were turned away from the overflowing Wheeler, and Brooks signed books until nearly midnight for those who remained. Robert Hass, a former U.S. poet laureate and a professor of English at UC Berkeley, called Brooks one of the most important African American poets of the 20th century.

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69. Gwendolyn Brooks’ Cool Poems: 'We Real Cool' And Other Poems Chicago poet gwendolyn brooks served as US Poet Laureate in 198586, while that title was still Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/gwendolyn_brooks_cool_poems

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70. BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Pulitzer Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Dies Pulitzer prize winning poet gwendolyn brooks, who chronicled the experiences of black people in the US, dies aged 83 years old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1054364.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Entertainment Front Page World UK ... AudioVideo SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobiles/PDAs Feedback ... Low Graphics Monday, 4 December, 2000, 16:33 GMT Pulitzer poet Gwendolyn Brooks dies Gwendolyn Brooks published 20 books of verse Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks has died at her home in Chicago. She was 83 years old. For most of the 20th Century she chronicled in verse the black experience in the United States. Gwendolyn Brooks was almost like a literary Joe Louis Professor Sterling Plumpp She was the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer prize for poetry and earned the highest praise from America's literary establishment, including being named the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer, the highest award in the humanities given by the government. "Of all the American poets in our lifetime, she has been a legend," said Elise Paschen, executive director of the Poetry Society of America. "Her poetry has been a great exemplar to her own generation; and to the generations that came up after her, she's been a great model, for her formal ingenuity, for her voice," she added. Born in Kansas in 1917, Brooks and her parents moved to Chicago when she was still an infant.

71. Lesson Plan - Gwendolyn Brooks Just to see the sun rise and see people in their ordinary lives doing their ordinary daily tasks was extraordinary for gwendolyn brooks. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/gbrooks.html

A mini unit on Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet, Novelist, Wife, Mother, and Teacher Famous Person: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917- ) Related Topics: Self Esteem Poetry (Specifically integrated in Health Education, Social Studies, and Language Arts) Grade Level: Author: Sharon Crowley Call Table of Contents Background Reference Objectives Time Allotment ... Appendix Background: "Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself." Gwendolyn Brooks Just to see the sun rise and see people in their ordinary lives doing their ordinary daily tasks was extraordinary for Gwendolyn Brooks. As a poet and novelist, Gwendolyn believed that what she needed to write about were the ordinary things people did, because in them was magic. It was this belief that paved the way for her, the first black woman, to receive the Pulitzer Prize (1950) in poetry for her work Annie Allen (1949). Her other major works include A Street in Bronzeville The Bean Eaters Selected Poems In Mecca (1968), and one novel for children Maud Martha (1953). In her career as a poet she was also a wife, mother, and a teacher. She was eventually named Illinois' Poet Laureate in 1968, and served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985-1986. She has been awarded over 50 honorary doctorates, and many prizes and awards. She is the only American to receive the Society of Literature Award from the University of Thessaloniki, Athens, Greece in 1990. A couple of her most notable contributions to learning has been to sponsor many poetry contests (in which she used her own money as rewards), and the many workshops she has taught encouraging young people to write.

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73. Gwendolyn Brooks The World of gwendolyn brooks (1971, poetry) Aloneness (1971, poetry) Aurora (1972, poetry) Report from Part One An Autobiography (1972, memoir) http://www.nndb.com/people/104/000084849/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Gwendolyn Brooks AKA Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Born: 7-Jun Birthplace: Topeka, KS Died: 3-Dec Location of death: Chicago, IL Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Annie Allen Father: David Brooks Mother: Keziah Wims Husband: Henry Blakely (m. 1939, one son, one daughter) High School: Englewood High School University: Wilson Junior College, Chicago, IL (1936) Professor: Professor of English, Chicago State University (1990-2000) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1950 for Annie Allen Guggenheim Fellowship American Academy of Arts and Letters Poetry Society of America NAACP Author of books: A Street in Bronzeville , poetry) Annie Allen , poetry) Maud Martha , novel) Bronzeville Boys and Girls , juvenile) The Bean Eaters , poetry) Selected Poems , poetry) We Real Cool , poetry) The Wall , poetry) In the Mecca , poetry) Family Pictures , poetry) Riot , poetry) Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali , poetry) The World of Gwendolyn Brooks , poetry) Aloneness , poetry) Aurora , poetry) Report from Part One: An Autobiography , memoir) A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing Beckonings , poetry) Primer for Blacks Young Poet's Primer Black Love , poetry) To Disembark , poetry) Very Young Poets The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems

74. American Literature Web Resources: Gwendolyn Brooks June 7, 1917 gwendolyn brooks is born to David and Keziah brooks in Topeka December 3, 2000 gwendolyn brooks Dies of Cancer in her home at the age of 83 http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/brooksbio.html

American Literature Web Resources: Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Compiled by Amy Soderberg, Millikin University Chronology June 7, 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks is born to David and Keziah Brooks in Topeka, Kansas five weeks later she moves to Chicago 1930 Publishes her first poem “Eventide" in American Childhood Magazine at the age of thirteen 1934 Graduates from Englewood High School 1934 Brooks becomes a member of the staff of the Chicago Defender has published almost one hundred of her poems in a weekly poetry column 1936 Graduates from Wilson Junior College 1938 Joins the NAAPC’s Youth Council where she met peers who accepted her and valued her talents 1939 Marries fellow writer Henry L. Blakely 1940 First child Henry L. Blakey III. is born 1943 Wins the Midwestern Writers Conference Poetry Award 1945 Brooks publishes her first anthology of poetry, “A Street in Bronzeville” 1949 Publishes her second volume of verse, “Annie Allen” 1950 First African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize 1951 Second child Nora is born 1953 Moves from the crowded apartment to a home on the South Side of Chicago 1956 Writes a collection of children’s poems called, “Bronzeville Boys and Girls”

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79. Brooks, Gwendolyn (Harper's Magazine) THINGS CONNECTED TO “brooks, gwendolyn”. HUMAN BEINGS. Aiken, Conrad Blunden, Edmund by gwendolyn brooks Poem, December 1959, 1 pp. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/GwendolynBrooks

HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Brooks, Gwendolyn WRITER OF 1 Collection from 1945 7 Poems from 1945 to 1959 SUBJECT OF 1 Review from 1949 CONNECTIONS HAS BORN DATE HUMAN BEINGS Aiken, Conrad Blunden, Edmund Brown, Harry Eckman, Frederick ... For Clarice by Gwendolyn Brooks Poem, December 1959 , 1 pp. Harper's Magazine is an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published from 1850. Subscriptions start at $16.97 a year. About Harper's Contact Harper's Advertising information

80. Gwendolyn Brooks Yes, few realize it, but gwendolyn brooks won that acclaim for her book of poetry, Annie Allen. brooks was also the first African American poet to win the http://www.kshs.org/portraits/brooks_gwendolyn.htm

Gwendolyn Brooks A Kansas Portrait A Pulitzer Prize winner from Topeka? Yes, few realize it, but Gwendolyn Brooks won that acclaim for her book of poetry, Annie Allen . Brooks was also the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer, an honor which stands at the forefront of many awards which have decorated her long and successful writing career. Born in North Topeka in 1917, the daughter of a school teacher, Brooks was barely one month old when the family moved to Chicago. From an early age, she developed an interest in writing and was able to relate experiences on black urban life into a complicated but beautiful poetic style. Her first success was A Street in Bronzeville , a book of poetry which brought her rave reviews and addressed such important issues as abortion, war and violent crime. The 1950s Annie Allen was a study of black urban life in post-war Chicago. In the next 20 years, other successful works included In the Mecca Maud Martha Riot and her autobiography which brought international prominence. In 1986 she was named Poet Laureate of the state of Illinois.

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