OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

Maud Martha, 1953

The World of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1971 

A Broadside Treasury (Editor), 1971

Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology (Editor), 1971

Report from Part One, 1972

The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, 1974

A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (with Don L. Lee,

Keorapetse Kgositsile and Dudley Randall), 1975

Primer for Blacks, 1980

Young Poets’ Primer, 1981

Very Young Poets, 1983

Report from Part Two, 1995

In Montgomery and other poems, 2003 (posthumously)

 

Aloneness, 1971

Beckonings, 1975

To Disembark, 1981

The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems, 1986 

Blacks, 1987

Winnie, 1988

Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, 1988

Children Coming Home, 1991

 

POETRY

 

A Street in Bronzeville, 1945

Annie Allen, 1949

Bronzeville Boys and Girls, 1956

The Bean Eaters, 1960

Selected Poems, 1963

In the Mecca, 1968

Riot, 1969

Family Pictures, 1970

           fact:

Gwendolyn Brooks

has been celebrated with

 Over 70

honorary doctorates!

     HONORS

 

       Include:

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• American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, 1946

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1946 & 1947

• Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1950

• Thormod Monsen Award (from Chicago’s “Poetry”), 1964

• Ferguson Memorial Award, 1964

• Poet Laureate of Illinois, 1968

• Anisfield-Wolf Award, 1968

• Black Academy Award, 1971

• Shelley Memorial Award, 1976

• Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America, 1988

• National Endowment for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, 1989

• Nat’l Endowment For The Humanities Jefferson Lecturer, 1991 & 1994

• Aiken-Taylor Award, 1992

• National Book Foundation Medal, 1994

• National Medal of Arts, 1995 (from the President)

• Academy of Americn Poets 65th Fellowship, 2000

• Living Legend-Library of Congress Medal, 2000