Gwendolyn Brooks: The Power of Poetry
Celebrated in her native Chicago for both her political activism and her poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks was a key figure in the Black Arts movement. Ranging in style from modernism to political protest and witness to what Brooks named “versejournalism, Brooks’ poems will take us on a journey through much of the twentieth century., for, in Brooks’ definition, “Poetry is life distilled.”
Course text: Selected Poems Gwendolyn Brooks, Harper Perennial Modern Classics. (available in paperback)
Instructor: Sr. Fran McManus, RSM
Mondays Oct. 7 – Dec. 16 ,2024 (No class on Oct. 14, Oct. 21 or Nov. 11)
6-8PM on ZOOM
Fee: $60.00