Organized and moderated by Andrew Peart (PhD candidate, Department of English Language and Literature) as part of the Winter 2017 course'Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and Politics.' Panelists include poets and performers Angela Jackson, Parneshia Jones, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Ed Roberson.
Panelists will offer their thoughts on the expanding geographical horizons of Brooks's work - from Chicago's Black Metropolis to the Pan-African world - by reflecting on Brooks's later poetry, which oscillated in scope between the local and the transnational. Panelists will discuss Brooks's role as a teacher and mentor of younger black poets in Chicago her place in Chicago's network of Black Arts Movement writing workshops and her example to black poets throughout the US of using new literary idioms as a vehicle for political work. This panel will focus on Gwendolyn Brooks's influence, impact, and legacy for African American poetry in Chicago and beyond. Bronzeville Out: Gwendolyn Brooks | March 7, 2017ĬRES Talks presents: “Bronzeville Out: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Reshaping of African American Poetry”
