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"Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100"
"Segregation confined the new arrivals to the South Side, where they created parallel institutions to the white ones that excluded them. Young Gwen came from a family of readers and book lovers, and announced early on that she intended to become a poet."
via NPR |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Hadara Bar-Nadav on Gwendolyn Brooks's "the rites for Cousin Vit"
"Poetry is attention; poetry demands attention. We feel the breath of each word as it is given to us. And here is this stunning and vibrant poem by Brooks—a poet who is no longer alive writing about a person who is no longer alive. And yet as I read it, we are all very much here, present through Brooks’s attention to language and our careful listening." |
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