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Ideas for Poems: Finding Inspiration for Your Poetry.Tips for improving your poetry writing skills.A look at the life and works of Langston Hughes.A tribute to the poetry of Maya Angelou.A discussion of the impact of Sylvia Plath’s poetry.An analysis of the works of William Shakespeare.He was named a 2019 Fellow by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Mainz, Germany. His writing has appeared in journals like English Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in the Novel. from the University of California, Davis, and has lived in Montreal, Vermont, North Carolina, and Germany. Ian Afflerbach is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of North Georgia, where he teaches and researches in 20th century American literature, political history, African-American studies, and the history of ideas. This program is the tenth program in our ongoing 'Race and American Culture' series. We will discuss the poems 'Kitchenette Building,' 'The Vacant Lot,' and 'A Song in the Front Yard' written by Gwendolyn Brooks.ĭr.

In our discussion, we'll be examining three short poems by Brooks to see how she captured the experience of urban space for African Americans during the era historians call 'The Great Migration.' Brooks had a tremendous gift for capturing everyday experiences in relatable language, and yet, as we'll see, her poems also explore the psychology of men and women around midcentury, revealing their shared hopes, fears, and dreams.

She gained early fame for capturing life in Chicago's African American neighborhoods, and, in 1950, she became the first Black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most prolific, distinguished, and widely admired American poets of the twentieth century.

Gwendolyn brooks poems about race