ModPo Database Artist: Gwendolyn Brooks

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text of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass"

text of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”

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text: poem or poems
discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass"

discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”

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video: primary poem discussion
0:27:34
discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" (abridged)

discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” (abridged)

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video: primary poem discussion
0:16:12
text of Brooks's "truth"

text of Brooks’s “truth”

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text: poem or poems
discussion of Brooks's "truth"

discussion of Brooks’s “truth”

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audio: discussion
0:32:04
PoemTalk on Knight's poem-response to Gwendolyn Brooks's "truth"

PoemTalk on Knight’s poem-response to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “truth”

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audio: PoemTalk
0:27:30
PoemTalk on Knight's poem-response to Gwendolyn Brooks's "truth" (abridged)

PoemTalk on Knight’s poem-response to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “truth” (abridged)

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audio: PoemTalk
0:17:51
further discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" [2018 webcast]

further discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” [2018 webcast]

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video: further poem discussion
0:12:42
further discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" [2019 webcast]

further discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” [2019 webcast]

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video: further poem discussion
0:01:36
discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" in the context of documentary photography

discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context of documentary photography

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video: further poem discussion
0:21:50
discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" (abridged)

discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” (abridged)

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video: further poem discussion
0:00:59
"Boy Breaking Glass" vs. "Mending Wall"

“Boy Breaking Glass” vs. “Mending Wall”

A 5-minute clip from a 2025 live webcast.

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video: webcast
00:04:57
text of Brooks's "The Chicago Picasso"

text of Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”

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text: biography or profile
discussion of Brooks's "The Chicago Picasso"

discussion of Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”

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video: primary poem discussion
0:26:13
Gwendolyn Brooks discusses "The Chicago Picasso"

Gwendolyn Brooks discusses “The Chicago Picasso”

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text: criticism or other
text of Gwendolyn Brooks's "Riot"

text of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”

Title poem in Riot (1969).

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text: poem or poems
discussion of Brooks's "Riot" (PoemTalk)

discussion of Brooks’s “Riot” (PoemTalk)

Link to PoemTalk program note.

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audio: discussion
00:43:14
D.H. Melhem's Classroom Issues and Strategies for Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks

D.H. Melhem’s Classroom Issues and Strategies for Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks

TRC
text: criticism or other
NPR's "Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100"

NPR’s “Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100”

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audio: discussion
0:07:01
Library of Congress online resources for Gwendolyn Brooks

Library of Congress online resources for Gwendolyn Brooks

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text: criticism or other
community discussion of Brooks's "Boy Breaking Glass" (Los Angeles, 2017)

community discussion of Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” (Los Angeles, 2017)

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video: CCCR
0:35:53