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1/20/03
[Biography]
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[E-texts]
Biography
Poetry Exhibits.
Gwendolyn Brooks
From Academy ofAmerican
Poets.
Includes biography and under "Listening
Booth" audio of "We Real Cool" read by
Brooks [young adult poetry]; Poetry online
includes "The Bean Eaters", "The Lovers
of the Poor", "The Mother", "the sonnet ballad" and
"We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn
Brooks
From Addison Wesley
Longman,
commercial site. Includes biography of Gwendolyn Brooks
with
discussion of her early years, literary career and
legacy as a poet.
Voices
From the Gaps : Women Writers of Color : Gwendolyn Brooks
Includes biography, criticism, links, e-text:
"The Bean Eaters;" from Voices From the Gaps
Gwendolyn
Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Life and Career; criticism of her
works, interviews with Brooks; prepared and compiled by
James Sullivan from Modern American Poetry.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Biographical sketch; e-texts: "We Real Cool," "Sadie and
Maud," "The Bean Eaters," "The Crazy Woman," from
African
American Book Club
An Evening
with Gwendolyn Brooks
Interview; by B. Denise Hawkins, Furious Flower,
James Madison University
Pulitzer
Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks dies
Obituary from San Francisco Chronicle
Black
History Month. Biographies
Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks for Black History Month;
critical review; awards; from Gale Group
The Circle
Association's Gwendolyn Brooks Page
Biography, bibliography, e-tests: "The Good Man," "The
Mother," "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed," "Sadie and Maud,"
"Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward,"
"garbageman: the man with the orderly mind," "The Crazy
Woman," "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi.
Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon." "my dreams,
my works, must wait till after hell." "Kitchenette
Building," "To Be in Love," "We Real Cool," "the
sonnet-ballad," "A Sunset of the City," "The Bean Eaters,"
"to the Diaspora," "the independent man;" from the
Circle Association
Gwendolyn
Brooks
Biographical information; Chicago State University is
official repository of her works; contact information;
From Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Western Illinois
University
Gwendolyn
Brooks
Biography from the National Women's Hall of Fame
Pulitzer Prize Winning
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Dies
Eulogy and many links
Gwendolyn
Brooks
Biography, bibliography from teachervision.com
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