2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Daily Poem
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today’s poem is by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000), an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen,[1] making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.[2][3]
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| 0:47.0 | Welcome back to The Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Wednesday, June 7, 2003. |
| 0:56.0 | It's the birthday of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, born in 1917, died 2000. |
| 1:03.0 | Brooks published her first poem when she was just 13, and this was clearly an auspicious start because she would go on in 1950 to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, |
| 1:13.4 | making her the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. |
| 1:18.6 | Brooks was known early in her career for her talent in capturing the voices and everyday life |
| 1:24.7 | of African American culture in America. But throughout her career, she would |
| 1:29.7 | turn her focus beyond particular ethnic culture to universal concerns. I think you'll see that |
| 1:38.0 | in these two poems today. I'll read them both, offer some comments, and then circle back and read them again. |
| 1:47.3 | The first poem was written in 1959. |
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