Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway
Nov 16, 2017 | 7:00PM

A Centennial Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks

Jericho Brown, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Erica Hunt, Darryl Pinckney, and others

Gwendolyn Brooks was a major American poet of the twentieth century, and a writer of great formal mastery and intimate observation. The author of twenty separate volumes of poetry, including the celebrated A Street in Bronzeville (1945), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen (1949), and In the Mecca (1968), as well as the experimental novel Maude […]

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Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry