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2 unusual facts about Gwendolyn Brooks


Annie Allen

Annie Allen is a book of poetry published by noted poet Gwendolyn Brooks which was published in 1949, and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize.

Gwendolyn Brooks

She attended Hyde Park High School, the leading white high school in the city, before transferring to the all-black Wendell Phillips.


Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

In 2001, the school was renamed in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, who was a South Side resident, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.

Hannah Kahn

Hannah had been successful in bringing national poets, such as Anthony Hecht, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yehuda Amichai, Dana Gioia, Maxine Kumin, John Haag, Carolyn Kizer and others to read and lecture in South Florida, and the foundation continues that effort.


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