“Poetry is life distilled.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks

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Happy Birthday to Gwendolyn Brooks, who is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position—and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness, especially those from the 1960s and later, with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period. 

source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks

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