National Poetry Month, Day 9: Gwendolyn Brooks

by Susie Meserve | Apr 9, 2014 | Great Reads

I went looking for a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, because I very much enjoyed her in college, and found this one, “A Light and Diplomatic Bird,” from 1949 in Poetry Magazine. Brooks was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, so it seemed like a good follow-up to yesterday’s poem by last year’s Pulitzer winner Sharon Olds.

Enjoy!

You can read more about Gwendolyn Brooks here.