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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American woman poet.. African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate

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Top 5 Poems

1	The Crazy Woman
2	We Real Cool
3	The Mother
4	The Lovers of the Poor
5	To Be In Love

All Poems

A Sunset of the City

My Dreams My Works Must Wait Till After Hell

One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

The Crazy Woman

The Independent Man

The Lovers of the Poor

Articles

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The Intersection of Race and Gender in Poetry: A Look at the Works of These 10 Black Women Poets

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Quote Left By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead....
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Quote Left Forgotten and stinking they stick in the can. And the vase breath's better and all, and all....
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Quote Left She went in there to muse on being rid Of relative beneath the coffin lid. No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.
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Quote Left Think of thaumaturgic lass Looking in her looking-glass At the unembroidered brown....
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Quote Left After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead.
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