Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Autograph postcard, signed: Nairobi, to William and Roslyn Targ, 1971 July 20.
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature; MA 8569.21
Reprinted By Consent of Brooks Permissions

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Family Pictures
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198515
© Broadside Lotus Press

To Gwen with Love
Edited by Patricia L. Brown, Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942; a.k.a. Don L. Lee), and Francis Ward (b. 1935)
Introduction by Hoyt Fuller (1923–1981)
Cover by Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004)
Chicago: Johnson Publishing, 1971
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2021
The Estate of Jeff Donaldson, courtesy of Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
“A Boy Died in My Alley”
In To Disembark (Chicago: Third World Press, 1981)
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198569
Reprinted By Consent of Brooks Permissions

Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004)
Victory in the Valley of Eshu, 1971
Watercolor, ink, gold paint, and cut-paper collage on cardboard
Courtesy Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York

Johari Amini (b. 1935)
Let’s Go Some Where 
Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Chicago: Third World Press, 1973
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2021; PML 198722
Reproduced with the permission of Omar Lama

Don L. Lee (b. 1942; a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti)
Don’t Cry, Scream
Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198581
© Broadside Lotus Press

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, or, What You Are You Are
Chicago: Third World Press, 1974
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020; PML 198523