June 2023
One Poem, One Chicago, an opportunity to engage Chicagoans in poetry and foster a sense of community through reading, will launch with a reissue of Gwendolyn Brooks’s landmark poetry collection Blacks, which will be available via CPL and public programming.
To complement Chicago’s collective reading of Blacks, there will be several free events and opportunities to learn about Ms. Brooks’s life and legacy.
In collaboration with the Poetry Foundation, the Guild Literary Complex hosted BrooksDay 2023, our annual celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks, with a reading of Blacks and new poems by local poets.