Celebrating Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks, 68, poetry consultant to the Library of Congress and named poet laureate of the sate of Illinois in 1968, sits in the Poet Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in March 1986. Brooks, who advises the Library of Congress on its literary programs and acquisitions, will end her one-year term in May.
Gwendolyn Brooks sits in the Poet Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in March 1986. AP Photo
Gwendolyn Brooks, 68, poetry consultant to the Library of Congress and named poet laureate of the sate of Illinois in 1968, sits in the Poet Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in March 1986. Brooks, who advises the Library of Congress on its literary programs and acquisitions, will end her one-year term in May.
Gwendolyn Brooks sits in the Poet Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in March 1986. AP Photo

Celebrating Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

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