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FSCJLLC: In honor of Women's History Month, we're highlighting our archival holdings of Kalliope Magazine, a women's art & lit magazine published by FSCJ from 1979-2008. This 1980 issue includes an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Visit

supersimple1: Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. ~Gwendolyn Brooks

KolaBoof3: I remember being so touched and amazed when I read the novel MAUD MARTHA by Gwendolyn Brooks. In 1950 she became the first Black Writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. I believe Colorism is the reason she is rarely feted & talked about. She remains one of our greatest writers ever!

rrpansari: Last month, the West Oak Lane Charter School Executive Leadership Council reconvened IN PERSON for the first time in 3 years and welcomed two new members, Gwendolyn Brooks, Project Manager for the HUD HBCU Program at Northwest Counseling Services, and Jea…

lavenderhermit: Sweet is it, sweet is it To sleep in the coolness Of snug unawareness — Gwendolyn Brooks

DanielKantor_1: "This piece celebrates iconic Black American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, whose poem “We Real Cool” was “banned, here and there” ostensibly because it used the word “jazz”. Today, “We real cool” (from her book The Bean Eaters, 1960) remains her most widely known and anthologized poem."

humancondishit: was it gwendolyn brooks or june jordan who wrote the riotous profusion of roses ? anyways yannis ritsos in the concentration camp for KKE cadre

reveraissance: "Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical disguise." Gwendolyn Brooks

tsykhchyba: Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool", published in her 1960 book "The Bean Eaters"

zindaily: “My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)

PoetNotRockStar: “It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

smcameronlaw: “We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

stefaniahgomez: Tfw youre in 5th grade and the Gwendolyn Brooks workshop is scheduled too close to lunch time

softchaosssss: “ we are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond ” - gwendolyn brooks

cclibrarynj: 3. Presented in cooperation with Bridgeton Municipal Alliance - Y2Y, this family friendly poetry series will take place over three Saturdays in April and will focus on the children’s book Exquisite: the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks.

cclibrarynj: 4. Saturday, April 1 – Participants will learn about poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who is known for her poetry about “real life.” We’ll then create our own poems based on our own, everyday, exquisite lives!

Othuke__Umukoro: "You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow." ---Gwendolyn Brooks, To The Young Who Want To Die.

Qwabekazi: 'sit down. inhale. exhale. you need not die today. stay here-- through pout or pain or peskyness. graves grow no green that you can use. remember, green's your color. you are spring.' — gwendolyn brooks, to the young who want to die

TheRandiSavage: “What was unreal to you, you could deal with violently.” Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

earthtokb: so who's gonna let me teach a class on Black women rappers & music in poetry. syllabus will include Megan Thee Stallion, Gwendolyn Brooks, & Noname for starters!

PeoplesOracle: Remember when Lorraine Hansberry radicalized Nina Simone? Remember when Malcom X radicalized Muhammad Ali? James Baldwin and Gwendolyn Brooks and Kwame Turé. And so many more impacted the politics and art of actors and musicians, the activism of athletes and many more...

LiberatedMuse: Was great to be together again to pay tribute to Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou and Lucille Clifton last night!

KhadijahOnline: Shared a few pieces last night at Words of Color, celebrating Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks

anarchpetditty: I really need to write an essay regards Gwendolyn Brooks' "Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat"--a poem that has me floored at every level.

unorigusername: “We jazz june. We die soon.” —Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”

melissadominic: The first poet I ever got to see read a poem in person was Gwendolyn Brooks. It was life changing.

KathleenOssip: I can't fathom the genius of Gwendolyn Brooks, to do what she did when she did.

windowseat: I really should read and reread more Gwendolyn Brooks. Somehow was my favorite poet as a kid and teen (yeah, how that happened given where/how I grew up and the schools I went to, I have no earthly idea). & this happened before I was online.

olicketysplit: that column of gold / the commonest ash “To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand.” - Gwendolyn Brooks oh doric to- tem: please be- gin and end in sky. this love is polytheis- tic. tongue to air, to touch ether with- out blood. A fire slighter than your hand.

SirJoshBennett: Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring.  —Gwendolyn Brooks

K_Ibura: Oh when to apprize Is to mesmerize, To see fall down, the Column of Gold, Into the commonest ash. From Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Harper & Row, 1963 (4/4)

K_Ibura: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote these lines about love, but I feel this golden hurt as an artist. I’m always aware of the work I’m not making. It hurts that I’m not flexing my creativity, but it’s golden bc the possibility is always there, for me to free my voice & to re-enter the flow.

K_Ibura: To Be In Love (excerpt) Gwendolyn Brooks To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look at things Through his eyes. A cardinal is red. A sky is blue. Suddenly you know he knows too. (1/4)

chenchenwrites: stunned to have a poem in this anthology alongside poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Naomi Shihab Nye, C.P. Cavafy, Ada Limón, June Jordan, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Juan Felipe Herrera, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Jean Chan, Anne Carson, Ross Gay, Warsan Shire, Nicole Sealey, & many more

blessedwriter3: All forms of black, white, and Mexican literature should be studied in all academia. Add more Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, and Pound to the curriculum.

ninejoseph: Gwendolyn Brooks, or Sunday reminder.

ChaturChiriya: “Stay here—through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green’s your colour. You’re spring.” Gwendolyn Brooks

IlliniPFPO: The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library welcome students in grades 5-8 for an afterschool celebration of poetry & the life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Participants will have a chance to write their own poetry & use their imagination. Click the link to register.⬇️

CryptoCesar26: We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. -Gwendolyn Brooks

pantagrapher: The movie was filmed at Hawthorn, the school name changed to Percy Julian the year I started, and I believe it’s called Gwendolyn Brooks now? In the movie it’s called Hemingway.

Brandon4Chicago: Every time I go to Truth Restaurant in Bronzeville, I leave inspired. The legacy of this neighborhood’s great leaders and pioneers, like Ida B. Wells, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Harold Washington, serves as a powerful reminder of the boundless potential of our community.

upfromsumdirt: gwendolyn brooks quote by curtis jinkins

upfromsumdirt: also amiri baraka, gwendolyn brooks, wendy trevino, and c. van jordan, aimé césaire... but honestly, music and art inspire me to write more than the writings of others.

Caspar9994: We real cool By Gwendolyn Brooks

TheRandiSavage: “But dandelions were what she chiefly saw….She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find what was common could also be a flower.” Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks

sanffrank1929: Gwendolyn Brooks- writer, poet. First African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1949.

zaharaesque: "that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks, 'Paul Robeson'

TracieDHall1: I felt lucky to have all this brilliance around the table when George came to give a talk and we closed down a restaurant talking about the censorship that James Baldwin, Garcia Lorca and Gwendolyn Brooks faced in their day. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Nitaetc: Gwendolyn Brooks is my girl though lol

uzora5: Gwendolyn Brooks We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

SaraSalehTweets: We are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. —Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetyk_Prynx: Gwendolyn Brooks has some poems that make me wish I was the one who wrote them.

iWomanTV: Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. Her Pulitzer was in poetry, specifically for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of an ordinary black girl.

Judicaelle_: " Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along." ~Gwendolyn Brooks

ellen313: “I am tired of little tight-faced poets sitting down to shape perfect unimportant pieces. Poems that cough lightly — catch back a sneeze. This is the time for Big Poems, roaring up out of sleaze, poems from ice, from vomit, and from tainted blood.”

ellen313: <<Tell your truth. Don’t try to sugar it up. Don’t force your poem to be nice or proper or normal or happy if it does not want to be…poetry is life distilled and that life is not always nice or proper or normal or happy or smooth or even-edged.>>

lw_miner: Great list, several more can be added, including work by Dylan, 2pac, Gwendolyn Brooks & Audre Lorde

ChicagoState: Cougars, we have the perfect networking opportunity for you! The Career Development Center will be hosting a Career Fair from 11 am - 3 pm, on April 5, in the Gwendolyn Brooks Library. Several companies will be on campus with internship and full-time opportunities.

phares_tim: In 2020, Florida adopted new English Language Arts standards. Writers include Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker & James Weldon Johnson.

AnnaMCarroll2: Writing is a delicious agony. Gwendolyn Brooks

Nepheway5279: I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.,Gwendolyn Brooks,writing,

cool_aiid: "Design is not just what you put on, but what you put out." - Gwendolyn Brooks

_dnlgrnt_: You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. Gwendolyn Brooks

SMHschoolMilton: We celebrated Black History Month with stories, art, poetry, essays, pictures, and movies. Natalia Louis recited Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, and Tiana Egwim recited Truth by Gwendolyn Brooks. Thank you both for sharing beautiful poetry with the entire school.

ILhumanities: We welcome students to join this afterschool celebration of poetry. Participants will examine materials that belonged to Gwendolyn Brooks and write poetry using her words and their own imaginations.

MAD_lines: thinking you're above someone struggling just bc you were born into economic privilege, escaped poverty, or avoided financial distress is delusional. "we are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." ~ gwendolyn brooks

ILhumanities: “All the children who entered the contest are winners… They worked hard. They created. And that is what is important.” -Gwendolyn Brooks, 1977 Visit

s_aintszn: Nikki Giovanni Sonia Sanchez Me Pauli Murray Gwendolyn Brooks Amiri Baraka The Last Poets Janet Jackson Lucille Clifton A lot of the older Black ones, tbh

JMDReid: “Writing is a delicious agony.” --Gwendolyn Brooks

evanmlamont: Abortions will not let you forget. –Gwendolyn Brooks

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victoria_grif7: Writing is a delicious agony. - Gwendolyn Brooks

jerichobrown: Not sure what’s happening here exactly but certain Gwendolyn Brooks wins.

Cristhi92188503: Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

GaithuruGeorge: Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

DG9996DG: to the young who want to die by gwendolyn brooks

ILhumanities: Submissions are now open! Youth across Illinois are welcome to be part of Brooks’ legacy through this year’s competition. Thank you to all our partners and supporters for making The Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards possible. Learn more at

oldbuffalo: as I just stole from Gwendolyn Brooks

7haman: “we real cool” by gwendolyn brooks.

Blu_bone: We real cool Gwendolyn Brooks

Cristhi92188503: Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

AliciaW81503997: Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

E_c_h_o: “Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks

TelegraphBooks: Finally out in the UK, Gwendolyn Brooks's 1953 novel follows a woman whose skin colour becomes a wall between herself and her lover

ManualCinema: Have you seen our latest sound of the month on Patreon, yet? Ben walks us through how we used a radio broadcast recording of Earl Heins and his band in our show No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Full video on our Patreon!

11tulips: Have a lewk. Not to be missed—Gwendolyn Brooks… Kipling, Coleridge, Frost… so many here. (I confess, I can suggest a thousand others better than The Red Wheelbarrow)

IBRescue: "One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers." ― Gwendolyn Brooks PURRlease supPURRt our mission to help with the many like these 2022 fosters.

OJPhilly: “Let Black love survive the challenge and the blood.” - “Black Steel” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Qualiphied_: Gwendolyn Brooks and Lorraine Hansberry

nikkilajoy: Marked as to-read: Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks

lifeisapeach_: when i lived in italy with my ex i used to do things like stay at home during snowy days and ask the potted orchids if they 'd prefer for me to read gwendolyn brooks or anna akhmatova out loud for them

lbarsk: “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III),” by Gwendolyn Brooks — poem text in alt ID if needed!

IBRescue: "One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers." ― Gwendolyn Brooks PURRlease supPURRt our mission.

NiNanjira: “...You need not die today. Stay here--through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks, To the Young Who Want to Die.

reemrumi: “Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring.” (To the Young Who Want to Die, Gwendolyn Brooks)

StevenH82349089: Line of Duty. She was CIA. The power to. Make you look. (Lamar) I'm doing fine. How are you? (Gwendolyn Brooks) Ok. I love y'all. Call me back. I'm with that. I'm with bowling. We didn't know. Y'all was cooking. Was off the chain. We need to appreciate this one too.

ILhumanities: As the first Black Pulitzer Prize-winner and Black woman to serve as Poet Laureate of IL and the U.S., Gwendolyn Brooks’ “masterful ability to capture the voice of Chicago in a variety of poetic styles catapulted her to success as a poet.” -Meredith Nnoka

ILhumanities: Illinois Humanities celebrates her legacy every year with the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards for young Illinois writers in grades K-12. Submissions are open now!

th3blond3amazon: Sweet is it, sweet is it To sleep in the coolness Of snug awareness. --Gwendolyn Brooks, "truth"

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