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June 7, 2023 marked the 10th anniversary of BrooksDay, the Guild Literary Complex’s annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks. This year, we joined forces with the Poetry Foundation to additionally celebrate the launch of One Poem, One Chicago, which started with a reissue of Brooks’ 1987 poetry collection Blacks (Third World Press).
You can view the original event post here.
Event Program | 10th Annual BrooksDay
Brooks Readings:
The Mother (p. 22) Andrea Change
At the Regal (p. 161) Sandra Jackson Opoku
Old (p. 39, Seasons) Val Gray Ward
The Sundays of Satin Leg Smith (p. 42) Heather Ireland Robinson
Paul Robeson (p. 496) and The Near-Johannesburg Boy (p. 507) Marvin Tate
To those of My sisters who Kept their Naturals (p. 459) Tarnynon Onumonu
To an old black woman, homeless and indistinct (p. 32 In Montgomery) Ed Robeson
The Ballad of Rudolf Reed (p. 376) and The Second Sermon on the Warpland (p. 451) Reg Gibbons
Boy Breaking Glass (p 438) Mario smith (host)
An Aspect of Love (p. 479) Sylvia Ewing
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock (P. 346) Samuel Lewis
Children of the Poor (en espanol) (p. 115) Eduardo Arocho
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmitt Till (p. 340) and Ms. Small (p. 341) Keli Stewart
Kojo: I am Black (p. 42 SEASONs) avery r young (Chicago Poet Laureate)
The Bean Eaters (p. 330) Toni Asante Lightfoot (Host)
We Real Cool (from No Blue Memories – Manual Cinema)
To Black Women (p. 502) and Memorial to Ed Bland (p. 92) Atena O. Danner
Appendix to the Anniad (p. 110 – 112) Mojdeh Stoakley
The life of Lincoln West (p. 482) Timothy David Rey
Third Sermon on the Warpland (p. 472) Nile Lansana
Aurora (p. 56, Seasons) Aurora Performance Group