Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Riot
Frontispiece by Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004)
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198520
The Estate of Jeff Donaldson, courtesy of Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York. © Broadside Lotus Press

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Riot
Design by Cledie Taylor (b. 1926)
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198519
© Broadside Lotus Press

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
“We Real Cool”
Design by Cledie Taylor (b. 1926)
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library
Call no. Broadside Ludwig 461. Reprinted by Consent of Brooks Permissions

Dudley Randall (1914–2000)
Cities Burning
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198554
© Broadside Lotus Press

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Report from Part One
Photographs by Roy Lewis (b. 1937) and others
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198522

Don L. Lee (b. 1942; a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti)
Think Black
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198541
© Broadside Lotus Press

Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement
New York: William Morrow, 1970
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198533