Good Morning POU! The South Side Writers Group was a circle of African-American writers and poets formed in the 1930s in Chicago, which included Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, Fenton Johnson, Theodore Ward, Garfield Gordon, Frank Marshall Davis, Julius Weil, Dorothy Sutton, Russell Marshall, Robert Davis, Marion Perkins, Arthur Bland, Fern Gayden, and … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – Chicago Black Renaissance
Gwendolyn Brooks
Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Poets
Happy Hump Day Obots! This week's open thread has focused on African-American poets. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an African-American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Poets