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identified with her writing.

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in nineteen seventeen. But she grew up in Chicago. She began

writing when she was eleven years old. She mailed several poems to a community newspaper in Chicago to surprise her family.

In a radio broadcast in nineteen sixty-one, Ms. Brooks said her mother urged her to develop her poetic skills:

GWENDOLYN BROOKS: My mother took me to the library when, I guess, I was about four or five. I enjoyed reading poetry and I

tried to write it when I was, I think, about seven, at the time that I first tried to put rhymes together. And I have loved

it ever since."

SARA LONG: Gwendolyn Brooks married Henry L. Blakely in nineteen thirty-nine. Henry Blakely was a young writer who later

published his own poetry. They lived in Chicago for the next thirty years, divorced in nineteen sixty-nine, but re-united in

nineteen seventy-three. They had two children, Nora Brooks Blakely and Henry Blakely.

Throughout her life, Ms. Brooks supported herself through speaking appearances, poetry readings and part-time teaching in

colleges.

She also received money from organizations that offered grants designed to support the arts.

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: One of Gwendolyn Brooks's most famous poems is called "We Real Cool". It is a short poem that talks about

young people feeling hopeless:

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

SARA LONG: By the end of the nineteen sixties, Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry expanded from the everyday experiences of people in

Bronzeville. She wrote about a wider world and dealt with important political issues. She won praise for her sharper, real-

life poetic style.

Gwendolyn Brooks was affected by the civil rights struggles and social changes taking place in America. She began to

question her relations with whites. She said she felt that black poets should write for black people.

That became evident in her next collection of poetry in nineteen sixty-eight called "In the Mecca." Critics suggested Ms.

Brooks had become too political and seemed to be writing only for black people. Her new poems received little notice in the

press.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:
In some of her poems, Gwendolyn Brooks described how what people see in life is affected by who they are. One example is

this poem, "Corners on the Curving Sky":

Our earth is round, and, among other things
That means that you and I can hold
completely different
Points of view and both be right.
The difference of our positions will show
Stars in your window. I cannot even imagine.
Your sky may burn with light,
While mine, at the same moment,
Spreads beautiful to darkness.
Still, we must choose how we separately corner
The circling universe of our experience
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