Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday / Jessica Care Moore -- Foreword / Marita Golden -- Part 2. Child-free / Joan Wiese Johannes ; Barbed wire / Jodi Joanclair ; I, too, am the mother / Georgia A. Popoff ; The unmother / Angela Jackson ; Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Jeanne Towns ; Motherhood / Emily Hooper Lansana ; First journey / Diane Glancy ; Daystar / Rita Dove ; My mother's clothes / Chirskira Caillouet ; Washer woman / Kimberly A. Collins ; Tax deadline / Akua Lezli Hope ; Fixing face / Akua Lezli Hope ; [Untitled] / Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Milk bath / Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Part 2. Horse and carriage on the plaza / Natasha Ria El-Scari ; A slip into history / Crystal Simone Smith ; My face / Aries Hines ; blk(s) / Avery R. Young ; The night after you have been fired from your job / Natasha Ria El-Scari ; A burning lesson / Kimberly A. Collins ; She was my first / Kalisha Buckhanon ; Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday / Jessica Care Moore -- Part 4. Oriki for John Oliver Killens / Jacqueline Johnson -- Recipe / L.D. Barnes ; Radio / Malaika Favorite ; For the lover who eats my poems... / Jaki Shelton Green ; To be in love / CM Burroughs ; To be / Keith Wilson ; Knife in the wall / Mike Puican ; Chalk / Keith Wilson ; When your silence will not save you / Randall Horton ; Fine art school / Crystal Simone Smith ; Combatives / David Bublitz ; Stay / Jericho Brown ; Abracadabra / Randall Horton ; Psalm 23 at 15 / Wayne-Daniel Berard ; Visitation one / David Bublitz ; Dog in a dead man's house / Adrienne Christian ; Babes / Mary Catherine Loving ; On Spring / Keith Wilson ; Bitter winter / Dasha Kelly ; Suicide one / David Bublitz ; Lovely love / Elise Paschen ; Sweet stalk / Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Genetic codes / Jodi Joanclair ; The Samaritan woman / John C. Mannone -- Part 4. Look behind / Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Deuce and a quarter / Calvin Forbes ; Convenience / Monique Hayes ; Anacostia suite / Tony Medina ; Sold to the man with the mouth / Adrian Matejka ; Kenny's friend / Judy Dozier ; Run Johnny run / Calvin Forbes ; Foun(d) poem / Avery R. Young ; Silly stories / Tony Lindsay ; Dying of laughter / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Sleep smoking / David Bublitz ; Five belly buttons / Rohan Preston ; Yaakov's jackets / Mel Goldberg ; The hammers / Jericho Brown ; Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Avery R. Young ; Civility / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Tribal differences / Reggie Scott Young ; Players online dating service / Calvin Forbes ; Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Looking for Venture Smith / Jacqueline Johnson ; Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Carolyn Joyner ; Oriki for John Oliver Killens / Jacqueline Johnson -- Part 6. Seven years / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Regina Taylor ; Many sons, many mothers / Tara Betts ; A depraved indifference 2 human life / Khari B. ; The short answer / Roger Bonair-Agard ; A neighborhood boy / Devorah Major ; Rite of passag / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; We real / Kevin Coval ; Roots / Nile Lansana ; News item : police seek African-American man / Mary Catherine Loving ; History of static / Kevin Stein ; East Texas blues / Mary Catherine Loving ; Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / Mary Catherine Loving ; We real / Roger Bonair-Agard ; WWW2015 / Deshaunte Walker ; The tragedies / Kevin Stein ; Skin / John C. Mannone ; Keloid cells / Jodi Joanclair ; Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Tony Medina ; Everyday horrors / Esteban Colon ; When racism dies / Kwabena Foli ; Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / Mary Catherine Loving ; A feast of whispers / Jaki Shelton Green ; In praise of wisdom / Sharan Strange ; Halloween / Malaika Favorite ; Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Sheree Renée Thomas ; Prayer for Jordan / Jaki Shelton Green -- Part 6. The corner / Keith Wilson ; A deaf old lady / Marilyn Nelson ; Street woman / Devorah Major ; Black woman in Russia / Shahari Moore ; Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Reggie Scott Young ; Urban couple / Opal Palmer Adisa ; The tenant / Keith Wilson ; Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / Patricia Smith ; R. Taylor's Project girl / Bettina Marie Walker ; Final frontier / Adrian Matejka ; Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / Kevin Coval ; The last supper / Tina Jenkins Bell ; Second Ave. ceiling / Zoe Lynn Nyman ; Steel canary / Rohan Preston ; Crime in Bluesville / Reggie Scott Young ; Eating in the after life / Qiana Towns ; Hotel Hades / Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Lincoln Cemetery / Cortney Lamar Charleston ; The blinking apple / Rohan Preston ; & later / Adrian Matejka ; Geometry / Rita Dove ; Cedar / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Fun in the backyard / Lenard D. Moore ; Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / Monica Hand ; June 9, Serifos, Greece / Monica Hand ; Blackbirding / John Wilkinson ; Seven years / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Part 8. Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015 / Kathleen E. Bethel. Language of the unheard / Opal Palmer Adisa ; Jazz June / Clifford Thompson ; To the recorder of history / Randall Horton ; A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Sharon Olds ; Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Sandra Cisneros ; Nobody knows my name / Manuel Muñoz ; A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Damaris Hill ; Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / Eugene B. Redmond ; The weight of the word / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Baggage / Lansana/Brooks ; Smolder / Lansana/Brooks -- Part 8. Artist statements. Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Khari B. ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Rose Blouin ; Anecdote / David Bublitz ; Adjoa Jackson Burrowes ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Adrienne Christian ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Judy Dozier ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Calvin Forbes ; Diane Glancy ; Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Jaki Shelton Green ; Monica Hand ; Reflection / Damaris Hill ; Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Akua Lezli Hope ; Being born into Brooks / Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Jodi Joanclair ; Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / Roy Lewis ; My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Tony Lindsay ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Devorah Major ; Remembrance / Adrian Matejka ; Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Lenard D. Moore ; Joyce Owens ; Elise Paschen ; My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / Mike Puican ; A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / Eugene B. Redmond ; Crystal Simone Smith ; To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Kevin Stein ; Regina Taylor ; Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / Jeanne Towns ; Qiana Towns ; Keith Wilson ; Avery R. Young ; A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Reggie Scott Young -- Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015 / Kathleen E. Bethel.
Summary:
Essays, poetry, and art included in this anthology celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.
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