Gwendolyn Brooks Collection, 1909-2003 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Gwendolyn Brooks Collection, 1909-2003

Predominant Dates:bulk 1960-2000

ID: 01/01/MSS00086

Primary Creator: Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)

Extent: 200.0 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 09/19/2013

Languages: English

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born to parents David Anderson and Keziah Wims Brooks on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. A few weeks later, her family moved to Chicago where she would live for the rest of her life. Brooks began writing at an early age and was encouraged by her mother saying, "You are going to be the lady Paul Laurence Dunbar." When she was 13, her poem "Eventide" was published in the children's magazine American Childhood [1]. By the time she graduated high school, Brooks had published over one hundred poems in the "Lights and Shadows" poetry column of the Chicago Defender [2]. After high school, Brooks graduated from a two-year program at Wilson Junior College [3]. In 1939, she married Henry Blakely, Jr. whom she met after joining the Chicago NAACP Youth Council. They soon had their first child, Henry III, and later their daughter, Nora.

Early in her career, Brooks was encouraged by poet James Weldon Johnson and Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Richard Wright [4]. In her work, Brooks drew inspiration from her life and surroundings in Chicago. Her first book of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), received praise for its authentic portraits of the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Her second collection of poems, Annie Allen (1949), chronicles the life of a young Black Bronzeville girl. It was for this book that Brooks won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, making her the first Black person to win the award in any category [5].

In the 1960s, Brooks work became more overtly political as she became close with activists and writers involved in the Black Arts Movement, a group of artists whose work reflected the cultural side of the growing Black Power movement [6]. She became especially close with Haki Madhubuti, to whom she became both a mentor and a mother figure. Soon Brooks began working exclusively with Black publishers, especially Broadside Press, founded by her close friend Dudley Randall, and Third World Press, founded by Madhubuti. In the 1980s, Brooks also established her own imprint called The David Company.

Throughout her long career, Brooks published more than twenty books of poetry, including The Bean Eaters (1960), Selected Poems (1963), In the Mecca (1968), Riot (1969), Family Pictures (1970), Aloneness (1971), Beckonings (1975), To Disembark (1981), Black Love (1982), The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986), Blacks (1987), Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantelle (1988), Winnie (1988), and Children Coming Home (1991). She also published one novel, Maud Martha (1953), as well as children's literature such as Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956) and The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves (1974). Brooks also published two autobiographies, Report from Part One (1972), and Report from Part Two (1995).

In addition to her writing, Brooks taught poetry and creative writing at numerous colleges and universities. In 1990, the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing was founded at Chicago State University, where Brooks served as distinguished professor and writer-in-residence [7]. Brooks influenced generations of writers, not only with her words, but with her actions. For most of the year, she traveled the country to perform her poetry for children of all ages as well as at universities, public libraries, hospitals, and prisons. As she especially encouraged young poets, Brooks sponsored youth poetry awards for over thirty years. Renowned for her generosity, Brooks dedicated her life to promoting the value of poetry and inspiring young writers.

Brooks was the recipient of more than seventy-five honorary doctorates and countless accolades [8]. In 1968, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois, a position which she held until her death in 2000 [9]. In 1985, Brooks was selected for an honorary one-year term as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress [10]. She received lifetime achievement awards from both the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989 and the National Book Foundation in 1994. Brooks then received the National Endowment for the Humanities' highest honor when she was named the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer. The next year, Brooks received the National Medal of Arts.

Today, Gwendolyn Brooks' legacy persists as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, because of both her contribution to American literature and her kindness and generosity, especially toward young poets and authors of color.

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Acquisition Source: Nora Brooks Blakely

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Finding Aid Revision History: This finding aid is experiencing ongoing revision, beginning in June 2023.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 15: Gwendolyn Brooks Library

Sub-series 1: Books

Item 1: Brooks 001-131

Browse titles on Primo.

Box 542

Box 543

Sub-series 2: Pamphlets and Periodicals

Box 544

Folder 1: “10 Tips for Hotel/Motel Fire Safety”, 1992

Includes “Fire Emergency Procedure” handout.

Folder 2: “250 Health Hints for the New Year”, 1991

Includes notes by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 3: AfrikaNews (vol. 2, no. 4), undated

Featuring an interview with Haki R. Madhubuti.

Folder 4: Afro-Americans (Psycholinguistics Reading Series, book 8), 1968?

Folder 5: AIM (vol. 10, no. 1), 1983

Includes a Citizens Schools Committee Golden Anniversary program.

Folder 6: American Academy of Arts and Letters

Item 1: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1996-1997, 1997

Includes a brochure with member photos.

Item 2: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (vol. 2, no. 46), 1995

Folder 7: American Poet (Summer), 1996

Includes a catalog of “audiotape archives” distributed by the Academy of American Poets.

Folder 8: American Poet (Winter), 1996-1997

Folder 9: American Poet (Winter), 1999-2000

Includes grouping of errata.

Folder 10: Anchor Books (Spring), 1990

Includes a note concerning Countee Cullen by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 11: The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1966-1967, 1967

Folder 12: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Item 1: Grouping of photos and ephemera related to Beyond Birmingham: Human Rights Around the World, 1994?

Item 2: Grouping of ephemera related to Black heritage and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1989, 1992, undated

Item 3: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute folder, 1994

Folder 13: “Birmingham-Southern College Annual Report”, 1993-1994

Folder 14: Black American Poetry: A Selected Bibliography (Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System), 1984?

Folder 15: Black Biography (vol. 1), 1981

Folder 16: Black Books Bulletin (vol. 2, no. 1), 1974

Folder 17: Black Books Bulletin (vol. 7, no. 3), 1981

Box 545

Folder 1: Black Books Bulletin (vol. 8, Annual), 1991

Two copies.

Folder 2: Black Books Bulletin: WordsWork (vol. 16, no. 1-2), 1994

Three copies.

Folder 3: Black Books Bulletin: WordsWork (vol. 16, no. 1-2), 1994

Copy heavily annotated by Gwendolyn Brooks. Includes a draft letter to Madhubuti, Haki R. (1981).

Folder 4: Black Culture Quiz (The Sperry and Hutchinson Company), 1979

Folder 5: The Blacklisted Journalist (Column 21), 1997

Folder 6: “Black Men in the Struggle/Beautiful Black Women in the Struggle”, undated

Folder 7: The Black Position (no. 3), 1973

Three copies.

Folder 8: The Black Scholar (Summer), 1972

Folder 9: The Black Scholar (June), 1975

Three copies.

Folder 10: The Black Scholar (vol. 13, no. 4-5), 1982

Folder 11: The Black Scholar (vol. 18, no. 1), 1987

Folder 12: The Black Scholar (vol. 19, no. 4-5), 1988

Folder 13: The Black Scholar (vol. 20, no. 3-4), 1989

Box 546

Folder 1: The Black Leadership Family Plan for the Unity, Survival, and Progress of Black People, 1982

Includes fundraising appeal forms and supplementary informational leaflets for the Black Development Fund, and a plastic envelope.

Folder 2: Blake, J. Herman. “‘Doctor Can’t Do Me No Good’: Social Concomitants of Health Care Attitudes and Practices Among Elderly Blacks in Isolated Rural Populations”, 1977

Folder 3: Blakely, Nora Brooks, ed. “A Bit of This, A Bit of That: Creative Writing from the Students of the Englewood Catholic Schools”, 1987

Folder 4: Bolden, B.J. “The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing Annual Report, 1997-1998”, 1998

Folder 5: Bontemps, Arna, ed. Anthology of Negro Poets, 1961?

Folder 6: Braxton, Joanne M. “Furious Flower: A Revolution in African American Poetry”, undated

Enclosed in a sealed plastic sleeve.

Folder 7: The Bret Harte School. Student Teachers: Selected Writing 1995-1996, 1996

Two copies.

Folder 8: Callaloo (no. 1, December), 1976

Folder 9: Cape Cod Community College Poets, 1995

Folder 10: Carman, Juanita C.

Item 1: “Who Are You” (Reach Out Series), 1981?

Item 2: Children Stories (Reach Out Series), 1981?

“And Reading Skills” written in red ink.

Item 3: Short Essays, Poems and Prose (Reach Out Series), 1981?

Item 4: Reach Out Series of Young Adults Stories, 1982?

“Teen-Ager and” and “With Instructional Aids, Applications and Other Forms” written in pink ink.

Folder 11: Centers for New Horizons, Inc., undated

Folder 12: Central Passages Literary Journal (Edition 1), undated

Folder 13: “Chicago State University 1989 Annual Report”, 1989

Folder 14: Chicago Tribune Magazine (Section 10), 2000

Includes a letter to Gwendolyn Brooks from Reardon, Pat and an envelope.

Folder 15: Chronicle: 1994 Prize-Winning Poems (Seminole Community College), 1994

Two copies.

Folder 16: Cincinnati Horizons (vol. 6, no. 3), 1977

Folder 17: Common Outlook (vol. 1, no. 12), 1943

Includes “On Freshness In Verse” envelope.

Folder 18: A Common Reader: A Selection of Books for Readers with Imagination (no. 114), 1995

Folder 19: Conexões (vol. 4, no. 2), 1992

Folder 20: Conley, “A Unit: Contemporary Black Poetry", 1971

Folder 21: Consultants’ Reunion: A Keepsake Anthology of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Consultantship in Poetry (Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)), 1987

Folder 22: The Contemporary Forum catalog, 1990s

Folder 23: Count Your Calories (Dell Purse Book), 1968?

Folder 24: Creative Survival: The Providence Black Community in the 19th Century (The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society), 1980

Includes a sticker for the “Centenário da Abolição Projeto Consciência e Liberdade” (Centennial of Abolution Conscience and Freedom Project).

Folder 25: The Creative Woman (vol. 10, no. 2), 1990

Box 547

Folder 1: The Creative Woman (vol. 10, no. 4), 1990

Folder 2: Cumpián, Carlos, ed. Emergency Tacos (March/Abrazo Press), 1989

Signed by Badikian, Beatriz; Cumpián, Carlos; and Niño, Raúl.

Folder 3: Daily Thoughts from the Hill (Hillside Chapel & Truth Center, Inc.), 1995?

Folder 4: Delta Epsilon Sigma Bulletin (vol. 16, no. 1), 1971

Folder 5: Denali (vol. 1, no. 1), 1979?

Folder 6: Devillers, Michel. Chartres (Ouest France; English edition), 1978?

Includes sheet music for French songs.

Folder 7: The Drama Review (vol. 12, no. 1), 1967

Folder 8: Drumvoices Revue (vol. 5, no. 1-2), 1996

Folder 9: ECCO (Fall-Winter), 1992

Folder 10: Eclectic Literary Forum (ELF; vol. 2, no. 3), 1992

Includes a letter from “Sue.”

Folder 11: Eclectic Literary Forum (ELF; vol. 4, no. 1), 1994

Folder 12: Eclectic Literary Forum (ELF; vol. 5, no. 2), 1995

Folder 13: Eclectic Literary Forum (ELF; vol. 6, no. 1), 1996

Includes a letter from “Sue.”

Folder 14: Ehret, Arnold. The Definite Cure of Chronic Constipation. Also Overcoming Constipation Naturally (Ehret Literature Publishing Co.), 1975

Folder 15: Eichelberger, D.B. Aldebaran (Booktrader Press), 1994?

Includes a loose page from Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep (Harper, Michael S. and Walton, Anthony, eds.).

Folder 16: Eiden, William. Spirit Circle, 2000?

Includes an envelope addressed to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 17: Empire Builder: 70th Anniversary Commemorative Menu, 1999

Folder 18: Engle, Paul. Christmas Poems, 1962

Folder 19: Epic (Spring), 1994

Includes a fragment of a possible cover page.

Folder 20: Epic (Spring), 1997

Includes a letter from Monroe, Ronald W. (Kingswood-Oxford School). Page IX is loose.

Folder 21: Esquire (April), 1970

Includes a bookmark for page 104.

Box 548

Folder 1: The Esther R. LaMarr Memorial Fund, Inc. Memorial Dinner program, 1968

Folder 2: Evans, Zishan. “Zetta” program, 1975?

Folder 3: Favors, Eunice C. Ordinary Life Extraordinary Understanding, 1998?

Folder 4: Florence, Milton. Selected Poems, 1991

Folder 5: Francesca, Sister M. I Became a Catholic and a Nun, 1974

Folder 6: The Freadom Newsletter (vol 2., no. 2), 1993

Three copies.

Folder 7: Free Spirit, 1976

Folder 8: Gambit (vol. 2, no. 4), 1978

Folder 9: A Gathering of the Tribes (vol. 1, no. 1), 1991

Includes flyers for the New York premiere of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at the Home of Contemporary Theatre and Art, a subscription form for A Gathering of the Tribes, and a letter requesting financial contributions.

Folder 10: Georgoudaki, Ekaterini. “Class, Race, and Gender Consciousness in Gwendolyn Brooks’s and Nikki Giovanni’s Poems for Children", 1990

Two copies.

Folder 11: The Gettysburg Review sample issue (Spring), 1998

Folder 12: Gildzen, Alex. Cat Scratches

Folder 13: Gildzen, Alex, ed. A Festschrift for Djuna Barnes on Her 80th Birthday (Occasional Papers No. 9; Kent State University Libraries), 1972?

Folder 14: Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School (Aurora, IL) yearbook, 1996-1997

Folder 15: Halisi, Clyde and Mtume, James, eds. The Quotable Karenga, 1967?

Folder 16: Harper & Brothers Announces a Broad Program for the Publication of Poetry, circa 1950s

Folder 17: Harris, Lola. Hyacinths and Biscuits, 1982

Folder 18: Harris, Lola. New Moon Life play script, 1990

Folder 19: Health & Beauty Guide (no. 12), 1982?

Includes a postage stamp, a grouping of correspondence sent to Brooks while in London (from “Adrian;” Pease, David; and Clarke, Beverley), and a note by Gwendolyn Brooks. Contains a sealed envelope.

Folder 20: Hecht, Anthony. Robert Lowell (Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)), 1993

Folder 21: Hijjawi, Sulafa, trans. They Claim There Is No Resistance: A Collection of Poems from Occupied Palestine (The Palestine National Liberation Movement), circa late 1960s

Folder 22: Hoffman, Daniel. “Moonlight Dries No Mittens”: Carl Sandburg Reconsidered (Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)), 1979

Folder 23: Hollander, John. Lyrical Interval, 1985

Box 549

Folder 1: Howe, Susan Elizabeth. Where Women Go When They Vanish, 1991

Includes a letter to Gwendolyn Brooks, a piece of scrap paper, and an envelope.

Folder 2: Illinois Alliance for Aging (Chicago). Dignity, Self-Respect and Security for Older Adults, 1993

Includes a letter from Riley, James B., Jr. and Elling, Ronald.

Folder 3: Illinois Arts Council. Heartland (vol. 5, no. 1), 1999

Includes an issue of Poetry (vol. 172, no. 5; 1998).

Folder 4: The Illinois Review (vol. 1, no. 1), 1993

Folder 5: Illinois Writers Review (vol. 7, no. 2), 1988

Folder 6: International Women’s Forum Roster, 1988

Folder 7: It’s My Place (McKenzie Elementary School (Wilmette, IL)), 1991

Folder 8: Jackson, Gale interview transcripts, 1982

Includes a letter to Gwendolyn Brooks. Interview narrators are Brooks, Edith and Bryant, Luvinia

Folder 9: Jackson, Juanita; Slaughter, Sabra; and Blake, J. Herman. “The Sea Islands as a Cultural Resource” (The Black Scholar), 1974

Folder 10: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Reports of the President and the Treasurer, 2000

Folder 11: The Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 4), 1967

Folder 12: The Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 5), 1967

Two copies.

Folder 13: The Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 6), 1967

Two copies.

Folder 14: The Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 7), 1967-1968

Folder 15: The Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 8), 1968

Two copies.

Folder 16: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 9), 1968

Box 550

Folder 1: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 19), 1968

Includes an issue of The Skiff (vol. 69, no. 31; 1970).

Folder 2: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 12), 1969

Folder 3: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 14; Pan African Issue), 1970-1971

Folder 4: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 15), 1971

Folder 5: Journal of Black Poetry (vol. 1, no. 16), 1972

Folder 6: The Journal of Ordinary Thought (vol. 10, no. 3), 2000

Folder 7: Journal of the Poetry Society of America (no. 51), 1998

Folder 8: Journal of the Poetry Society of America (no. 52), 1998

Folder 9: JuJu: Research Papers in Afro-American Studies (Winter), 1976

Folder 10: Kansas Alumni Magazine (vol. 89, no. 6), 1991

Includes a letter from Niebaum, Jerri to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 11: Karimi, Robert. Get Down W/Yr… Self to a Funky Disco Beat, 1996?

Folder 12: Katherine Mansfield: An Exhibition (University of Texas at Austin), 1973

Folder 13: Kennedy King College. Schedule of Classes (Fall), 1994

Folder 14: Kent, George and Henderson, Stephen. A Dark and Sudden Beauty: Two Essays in Black American Poetry, 1977?

Folder 15: King, John T. and Marcet H. Famous Black Americans, 1975?

Folder 16: Klug, Gary. “Dedicated to the Lord”: I Pray in Rhyme. Selected Poems, 1977?

Folder 17: Landry, John, comp. Collision, 1995?

Folder 18: LeBlanc, Liz. Moon Shots, 1977?

Box 551

Folder 1: Leer, Norman. Second Lining (Mellen Poetry Press), 1997

Various pages are marked with sticky notes.

Folder 2: Lewis, Wendy. Spring Poems and Pictures, undated

Folder 3: The Library of Congress (Humanities and Social Sciences Division)

Item 1: Library of Congress Information Bulletin (vol. 45, no. 17), 1986

Two copies.

Item 2: Library of Congress Information Bulletin (vol. 45, no. 3), 1986

Item 3: Library of Congress Information Bulletin (vol. 53, no. 13), 1994

Two copies. Includes an envelope addressed to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 4: LIFE (vol. 1, no. 1), 1883

Folder 5: Lips (no. 11), 1985

Includes a business card for Boss, Laura and a grouping of ephemera concerning various topics and events.

Folder 6: Lotus Press catalog, 1983

Two copies.

Folder 7: Long, Richard A. Ascending and Other Poems, 1975?

Folder 8: Lou’s Fish Grotto (Monterey, CA) menu, undated

Two copies.

Folder 9: The Loyola Report (vol. 1, no. 2), 1961

Three copies. Includes a letter from Maguire, James F. (Loyola University) to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 10: Literacy Volunteers of Chicago

Item 1: Letter from Honderich, Judith K. to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1992

Item 2: Literacy Volunteers of Chicago brochure, undated

Item 3: Tutor Program Handbook (January-June), 1992

Item 4: The LVC Voice (Fall), 1991

Item 5: The LVC Voice (Spring), 1991

Item 6: Literacy Volunteers of Chicago 1990-1991 Annual Report, 1991

Folder 11: Madhubuti, Haki R. (Lee, Don L.)

Item 1: “Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks”, circa 1990/1991

Item 2: Loose pages from The Woman, The Work, The Music, undated

Item 3: For Black People (and Negroes Too): A Poetic Statement on Black Existence in America with a View of Tomorrow (Third World Press), 1968?

Folder 12: Maryland Museum of African Art (grouping of visitor ephemera), 1986

Includes a newspaper clipping and a “Maryland Museum of African Art” folder.

Folder 13: Massachusetts (vol. 7, no. 2), 1996

Folder 14: Maternal and Newborn Care: An Educational Guide for Expectant Mothers (E.I. Donahue Publishing Company), 1950?

Includes loose pages, notes, and advertisements for baby supplies.

Folder 15: Memorial in Honor of M.L. Rosenthal, 1917-1996, 1996

Folder 16: MidAmerica (vol. 8), 1986

Folder 17: MidAmerica (vol. 25), 1998

Box 552

Folder 1: Millet, Martha. Thine Alabaster Cities: A Poem for Our Times, 1952?

Folder 2: Mitchelson, Tom. From a Window Tree Leaves Wave…, 1976

Folder 3: Modern Language Association. Publications: Winter-Spring 2000, 2000

Includes an issue of To Your Health (Catholic Health Partners). Contains a separation sheet.

Folder 4: Monroe School’s Anthology of Poems, 1995

Two copies.

Folder 5: Mullen, Harryette. Tree Tall Woman (Energy Earth Communications, Inc.), 1980?

Folder 6: My Book of Paper Dolls: Big Dolls Ready to Cut Out and Dress (Saalfield Publishing Co.), 1932?

Includes an illustration of a child with a dog and cat, a note by Gwendolyn Brooks, paper dolls, and The Sugar Doll Family and Their Favorite Recipes.

Folder 7: Naperville North High School (Naperville, IL). Chrysalis (Spring), 1985

Folder 8: The National Commission on Excellence in Education. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, 1983

Folder 9: National Endowment for the Humanities. “My History Kit”, undated

Folder 10: Negro American Literature Forum (vol. 9, no. 1), 1975

Folder 11: The New Press Literary Quarterly (vol. 10, no. 2), 1994

Folder 12: Nims, John Frederick. The Harper Anthology of Poetry, 1981

Includes a letter from “John” to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 13: Nin, Anaïs. Paris Revisited (Capra Press), 1972

Folder 14: Nommo (vol. 1, no. 3), 1975

Folder 15: NOVA (Einstein), 1979?

Folder 16: Ochester, Ed, ed. The Pitt Poetry Series, 1987

Folder 17: Октябрьский Дворец Культуры (Киев Реклама), 1980

Translates to The October Palace of Culture. Includes a folder for Готель Київ (Hotel Kyiv).

Folder 18: “An Overview of Marcy-Newberry Association” (The Marcy-Newberry Association, Inc.), 1991?

Folder 19: Parr, Albert Eide

Item 1: “Environmental Design and Psychology” (reprinted from Landscape (vol. 14, no. 2)), 1964-1965

Item 2: “City and Psyche” (reprinted from The Yale Review (vol. 55, no. 1), 1965

Folder 20: Parr, Albert Eide. “In Search of Theory VI” (reprinted from Arts & Architecture), 1965

Folder 21: Parr, Albert Eide. “Urbanity and the Urban Scene” (reprinted from Landscape (vol. 16, no. 3)), 1967

Folder 22: Parr, Albert Eide. “Remarks on Climate and Environment Design” (reprinted from Human Dimensions of the Atmosphere), 1968

Folder 23: Parr, Albert Eide

Item 1: Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1968

Item 2: “The Five Ages of Urbanity” (reprinted from Landscape (vol. 17, no. 3), 1968

Item 3: “Toward Cultural Entropy” (reprinted from Ekistics Οικιστικη (vol. 24, no. 144), 1967

Item 4: “The Happy Habitat” (reprinted from The Journal of Aesthetic Education (vol. 6, no. 3)), 1972

Folder 24: Parr, Albert Eide. “Heating, Lighting, Plumbing, & Human Relations” (reprinted from Landscape (vol. 19, no. 1), 1971

Folder 25: Parr, Albert Eide. “The Design of Cities” (reprinted from Architectural Association Quarterly (vol. 3, no.3)), 1971

Folder 26: Parr, Albert Eide. “Art and Environment in an Age of Abundance” (reprinted from Environmental Quality: Now or Never; SIM Special Publication no. 5), 1972

Folder 27: Pathways: A Minority Press Review, 1989

Folder 28: Pearn, Victor. Blame It on a Lightning Bolt (MAF Press), 1989

Includes a note from Stone, Kim(?) to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 29: Pease, Roland F., Jr., ed.

Item 1: Zoland Books Fall 1991 catalog, 1991

Item 2: The Zoland Books Poetry Postcard Collection, 1989?

Box 553

Folder 1: PEN American Center Newsletter (no. 70), 1989

Includes an article from the Chicago Tribune (1990).

Folder 2: Perceptions (vol. 13), 1994

Includes a letter from Sauret, Thomas J. (Gainesville College) to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 3: Perceptions (vol. 14), 1995

Two copies.

Folder 4: Perryman, Brenda K. Mood Swings and Magic Carpet Rides: Poems of the Heart, 1990?

Folder 5: Phi Kappa Phi Journal (vol. 50, no. 2), 1970

Folder 6: Philomela, undated

Sent to Gwendolyn Brooks by Urch, Gloria.

Folder 7: Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race & Culture (Fourth Quarter), 1950

Includes an issue of Summer Northwestern (vol. 44, no. 3; 1964).

Folder 8: Pierce, Edith Lovejoy. Poems in Later Life, 1991

17 copies. Includes Celebrations (1987).

Folder 9: Poetry (vol. 74, no. 1), 1949

Folder 10: Poetry (vol. 79, no. 5), 1952

Folder 11: Poetry (vol. 111, no. 6), 1968

Folder 12: Poetry (vol. 151, no. 1-2), 1987

Folder 13: Poetry (vol. 160, no. 5), 1992

Includes a newspaper clipping.

Box 554

Folder 1: Poetry (vol. 161, no. 1), 1992

Folder 2: Poetry (vol. 167, no. 5), 1996

Folder 3: Poetry (vol. 168, no. 2), 1996

Folder 4: Poetry (vol. 169, no. 1), 1996

Folder 5: Poetry (vol. 169, no. 4), 1997

Folder 6: Poetry (vol. 170, no. 1), 1997

Folder 7: Poetry (vol. 170, no. 2), 1997

Folder 8: Poetry (vol. 173, no. 2), 1998

Folder 9: Poetry Catalogue Four: Books of Contemporary Poets and Presses with a Sprinkling of Earlier Times, circa 1992

Folder 10: The Poetry Connection: Dial-a-Poem, Chicago! Tenth Anniversary 1981-1991 (Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs), 1991

Folder 11: Poetry Pilot (Winter), 1995-1996

Open to page 7.

Folder 12: The Poetry Society of America Bulletin (vol. 70; Spring), 1980

Folder 13: Poets & Writers (vol. 23, no. 4), 1995

Folder 14: Poets & Writers (vol. 23, no. 5), 1995

Folder 15: Poets & Writers (vol. 24, no. 4), 1996

Folder 16: Poets & Writers (vol. 24, no. 6), 1996

Missing cover page.

Folder 17: Poets & Writers (vol. 26, no. 5), 1998

Front and back cover pages taped together. Includes an issue of News from the National First Ladies’ Library (vol. 1, no. 3).

Folder 18: Poets & Writers (vol. 28, no. 3), 2000

Folder 19: Poets On: Twentieth Anniversary Reprise (vol. 20, no. 2), 1996

Folder 20: Prevention magazine. Easing Arthritis Pain, 1992

Includes a letter from Hill, Larry (Prevention) to subscribers.

Box 555

Folder 1: Prickly Pear (University of South Carolina at Spartanburg), 1994?

Folder 2: Private Writers’ Literary Magazine (Yorkville High School (Yorkville, IL)), undated

Folder 3: PSA News (vol. 38), 1992

Folder 4: PSA News (vol. 40), 1992

Folder 5: PSA News (vol. 43), 1994

Folder 6: PSA News (vol. 44-45), 1994

Folder 7: PMLA (vol. 113, no. 1), 1998

Folder 8: PMLA (vol. 114, no. 2), 1999

Folder 9: Publishers Weekly (December 7), 1992

11 copies. Includes a bubble mailer addressed to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 10: The Purdue Alumnus (March), 1995

Folder 11: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress (July), 1969

Folder 12: Radden, Viki. Walking to New Zealand: Poems, Stories, & Recipes, 1987

Includes a photo of a woman in front of a pizza restaurant.

Folder 13: Rago, Maria Christina, ed. The Selected Poems of Henry Rago, 1915-1969, 1999

Folder 14: Randall, Dudley. Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known (Broadside Press), 1975

Three copies.

Box 556

Folder 1: Randall, Dudley. Love You (vol. 10; Heritage series), 1971

Three copies. Includes a scrap of paper and a facial tissue.

Folder 2: The Rectangle (vol. 65, no. 2), 1990

Includes an issue of Sigma Tau Delta Newsletter (Fall 1990) and two works by Taylor, Ann R.: Hopes and Dreams (1986) and Feel’n Good (1980).

Folder 3: The Rectangle (vol. 68, no. 1), 1993

Folder 4: Red Lion Motor Inn brochure, circa 1970s

Folder 5: Redmond, Eugene B., ed. “Clashing Harmonies & Universal Particulars: A Workshop Report on the 3rd National Black Writers Conference”, 1991

Includes a blank order form for Drumvoices Revue.

Folder 6: Reflections (no. 3), 1985

Folder 7: The Renaissance (October 1), 1990

Folder 8: Revelry (vol. 7), 1994

Two copies.

Folder 9: Revelry (Tenth Anniversary Issue), 1997

Folder 10: Revelry (vol. 11), 1998

Two copies.

Folder 11: The River Newsletter (vol. 3, no. 1), 1985

Folder 12: Rottner, Courtney Hope. Sweet Thoughts, 1988

Folder 13: Sanders, Richard F. Lima Beans and Other Poems, 1995

Folder 14: The Saracen (Spring), 1993

Folder 15: Schaffenburg, Carlos A. Songs Irreverent and Old, 1995?

Folder 16: The Sewanee Review (vol. 104, no. 1)

Includes an issue of HSPE: Teaching High School Physical Education (vol. 1, no. 6; 1995).

Folder 17: The Sewanee Review (vol. 104, no. 2), 1996

Folder 18: Slaboshpitskiy, M. and Shevchenko, A. Soviet Ukrainian Literature Today (Radyansky Pismennik Publishers), 1981

Box 557

Folder 1: SML Newsletter (vol. 18, no. 2), 1988

Folder 2: SML Newsletter (vol. 24, no. 2), 1994

Folder 3: SML Newsletter (vol. 24, no. 3), 1994

Folder 4: Sokel, Walter H. Franz Kafka (Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, no. 19), 1966

Folder 5: Southerland, Ellease. A Feast of Fools, circa 1998

Unbound. Includes a plastic bag.

Folder 6: Spelman Messenger (vol. 111, no. 2), 1997

Folder 7: Stagebill (September), 1988

Features a performance of Dreamgirls by the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse.

Folder 8: Stanford, Ann Folwell. “Like Narrow Banners for Some Gathering War”: Readers, Aesthetics, and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith”, undated

Folder 9: Stanford, Ann Folwell. “‘The Tender Struggle’: War and Resistance in the Early Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks”, 1990

Includes a letter to Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 10: Staying Healthy, Being Aware: Health Care After Forty (U.S. Government Printing Office), 1992

Folder 11: Stein, Jean, ed. Grand Street (vol. 15, no. 2), 1996

Missing front cover.

Folder 12: Stillwater (vol. 30; Fall-Spring), 1991-1992

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Folder 1: Tanks, Mark D. Oceans of Blood (Lithe Press), 1990

Folder 2: Tarascio, Sara. Life’s Blessings (Salesian Inspirational Books), 1985?

Folder 3: Taylor, Carol, ed. The Little Black Book: Black Male Survival in America. Or, Staying Alive and Well in an Institutionally Racist Society, 1985?

Folder 4: Tengroth, Leyla Assaf, ed. Facts on Botswana (Government Information Services, Gaborone), 1976

Water damaged.

Folder 5: Terrell, Lloyd P. Thoughts on Paper (Georgia Preston Publications), 1975?

Folder 6: Third World Press (Chicago) catalog, 1992

Folder 7: The Tower (Austin Peay State University), 1988?

Includes “An African-American Dilemma: Black Leaders in Memphis Politics” by Mock, James (Austin Peay State University); “Shattering the Window” by Hardin, Jeff; and a business card for Mock, James.

Folder 8: Traces of Wonder (Central School (Wilmette, IL)), 1991

Folder 9: A TransAfrican Aesthetic: Paintings by Jeff Donaldson (Eastern Connecticut State University), 1999

Folder 10: TriQuarterly (vol. 82), 1991

Folder 11: Turner-Barnes, Sandra. Always a Lady: Poetry for and About Today’s Woman—With Today’s Man in Mind!, 1995

Missing back cover.

Folder 12: University of the South

Item 1: All Saints’ Chapel brochure, 1990

Three copies.

Item 2: The Last Lecture Series leaflet, undated

Two copies.

Folder 13: The University Press of Kentucky (Fall and Winter), 1988-1989

Folder 14: The University Press of Kentucky (Fall and Winter), 1989-1990

Three copies.

Folder 15: VFH (vol. 24), 1998

Folder 16: Villarino, Maria de. “With Robert Frost, Poet of Eternal Return”, circa 1956

Folder 17: Vioxx medication informational booklet (Merck & Co., Inc.), 2000?

Folder 18: Vivé 81 (South Side Community Art Center (Chicago)), 1982

Includes a ticket order form for an event at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Folder 19: Glossolalia (Walsh University; Spring), 1992

Folder 20: Sundries (Walsh University; Spring), 1993

Folder 21: Ward, Francis. Kuumba, 1993

Folder 22: Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (vol. 1, no. 1), 1995

Two copies. Includes an order form.

Box 559

Folder 1-5: Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (vol. 1, no. 1), 1995

Two copies per folder.

Box 560

Folder 1: Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (vol. 1, no. 1), 1995

Two copies.

Folder 2: Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (vol. 3, no. 1), 1997

Includes notes by Gwendolyn Brooks and a poem by Tavenner, Amy.

Folder 3: Washington Review (vol. 11, no. 5), 1986

Contains a separation sheet.

Folder 4: Watts, Michael. Oxford: The City and University, 1975?

Folder 5: We the People: The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787-1987 (Illinois Bell Telephone Company), 1987

Folder 6: Why Literature Should Be Heard. (Unterberg Poetry Center. 92nd Street YMCA (New York)), 1993-1994

Folder 7: Wilkman, Jon Kurt. Black Americans: From Colonial Days to the Present, 1969?

Includes a call for contributions to an anthology concerning Gwendolyn Brooks.

Folder 8: Williams Alumni Review (vol. 80, no. 4), 1988

Includes a bookmark for page 24.

Folder 9: Wittenberg University Admission Viewbook, undated

Includes a booklet on Black student involvement, a pass for Amtrak’s Metropolitan Lounge at Union Station, and a postcard in a wax paper envelope.

Folder 10: Wright, Stephen Caldwell. Out of the Wailing (Christopherr-Burghardt Associates), 1992?

Folder 11: Wright, Stephen Caldwell. The Chicago Collective: Poems for and Inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Laureate of Illinois, 1990?

Folder 12: Xavier Review (vol. 17, no. 2), 1997

Folder 13: Miscellaneous travel materials

Item 1: Washington D.C.: Natural Color Views of the Nation’s Capital, undated

Item 2: “Lunch on Capitol Hill” leaflet, undated

Item 3: Woburn Abbey informational booklet, undated

Includes an advertisement for Trust Houses Forte from Ambassador (November 1978).

Item 4: “Experience… Exeter, New Hampshire” brochure, 1981

Box 564