HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE GREAT, MS. GWENDOLYN BROOKS!!! Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was a poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. Brooks also received more than 75 honorary degrees from […]

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