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Gwendolyn Brooks

7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000 / Topeka, Kansas

Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks

  • A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
  • A Penitent Considers Another Coming Of Mary
  • A Song In The Front Yard
  • A Sunset Of The City
  • Boy Breaking Glass
  • Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind
  • Jessie Mitchell’s Mother -
  • Kitchenette Building
  • Mayor Harold Washington
  • My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
  • Of De Witt Williams On His Way To Lincoln Cemetery
  • Of Robert Frost
  • One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This
  • Primer For Blacks
  • Riot
  • Sadie And Maud
  • Speech To The Young : Speech To The Progress-Toward
  • The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
  • The Bean Eaters
  • The Blackstone Rangers
  • The Children Of The Poor
  • The Crazy Woman
  • The Good Man
  • The Independent Man
  • The Life Of Lincoln West
  • The Lovers Of The Poor
  • The Mother
  • The Rites For Cousin Vit
  • The Sermon On The Warpland
  • The Sonnet-Ballad
  • The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith
  • The Vacant Lot
  • To Be In Love
  • To The Diaspora
  • Tommy
  • Truth
  • We Real Cool
  • When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
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