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Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks
Oct 19, 2017 | 7:00 pm
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Poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke discusses the poetics and politics of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Reading from Brooks’ early and late poetry, Clarke examines Brooks’ contributions to a radical black practice of poetry and her representations of the black working class in A Street in Bronzeville and The Near-Johannesburg Boy.
Presented as a part of Our Miss Brooks 100
Admission $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members Location Poets House (Kray Hall) Sponsored By Poets House
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- Date:
- Oct 19, 2017
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7:00 pm
- Event Category:
- Readings and Conversations
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2017: Passwords: Cheryl Clarke on Gwendolyn Brooks
Recorded At: Poets House Recorded On: Thursday, October 19, 2017