Black Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks


Gwendolyn Brooks was an African-American poet born in Kansas.Her work evoked the Black experience in the United States and she won aPulitzer Prize in in 1950. She was the State of Illinois in 1968. She died inthe year 2000.
 
We Real Cool 
 
               The PoolPlayers.
        Seven at the Golden Shovel.
 
            We real cool.We   
            Left school. We
 
            Lurk late. We
            Strike straight. We
 
            Sing sin.We   
            Thin gin. We
 
            Jazz June. We   
            Die soon.
 
 

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I published my first poetry collection, The Dance of Dawn at age 17, wrote for the Sun Newspaper, Cameroon as a guest columnist and read poetry for guesthouse magazine, Iowa. I was also the very first volunteer for The African Writers Conference whose maiden edition was held in Abuja 2018 and subsequently in Kenya, Tanzania, and Cameroon, winning a first-year university scholarship. I have also just been selected to be one of Doha Debate Ambassadors 2023.