"In the hands of Gwendolyn Brooks, old age is a diamond with many facets. magazine, the Literary Traveler, Islands Magazine, and elsewhere..
Her fiction, poetry, articles, essays, and scripts have appeared the Los Angeles Times, Ms.
Hot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him) was an Essence magazine bestseller.
The River Where Blood is Born earned the American Library Association Black Caucus Award for Best Fiction.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku has authored two novels.
Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002 to 2011.
He is a faculty member of the Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Quraysh Ali Lansana is author or editor of twenty books.
This collection of poetry, essays, and art inspired by the Work of Miss Brooks celebrates her life, writing, and activism.
Miss Brooks\' depictions of poor and working class African Americans provides insight into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and her lens on the Great Migration, hard and necessary truths about race injustice, and the Black Power movement interprets and contextualizes current racial inequities and tensions.
And, yet, she offered resistance and affirmation."--Angela Jackson, award-winning poet and activist The year 2017 marks the 100th birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.
Throughout her poetry Brooks has illuminated old age as a time of isolation and withdrawal, remembrance and continuity, poverty, vulnerability, even homelessness, exploitation, neglect, abandonment, marginalization and destruction. "In the hands of Gwendolyn Brooks, old age is a diamond with many facets
