Sketch of Gwendolyn Brooks, cover of Poetry Magazine

June 2017

Slang, "Through the Words of Miss Brooks," 2017
 
  • Patricia Smith
  • Jacqueline Jones LaMon
  • Randall Horton
  • CM Burroughs
  • Mahogany L. Browne
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i. the old marrieds

But why the moon rose so cruelly, neither of them would say.
Though a listless jazz buzzed obediently beneath their day,
and he had seen the hand-in-hands dotting the dim streets.
And she had heard the morning skillet scorch its...
Poem
The students know the agenda. When I step
inside our classroom, the PowerPoint is loaded,
the student presenting her report stands poised

to begin. And so she does. This day is her
second try, the first a wash due to our failed
technology. I ask,...
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From “Matter in the margins: Gwendolyn Brooks at 100”
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