African American literature

Name: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of the Black Literary Canon
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November 2023
November 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EST

Historic First Editions in African American Literature

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Virtual lecture, free and open to the public CBS Producer Alvin Patrick shares his collection of African Americans' books with frontispiece author portraits. Club member Alvin Patrick, a CBS News Executive Producer, has amassed over 2,000 books during 30 years of collecting. He will discuss highlights of his first editions […]
December 2024
December 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm CST

Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of the Black Literary Canon

Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program Presented by the Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium August 24, 1949: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks is published. It is her second volume of poetry, and readers admire and struggle with its technical forms, its atomizations, and critiques of racial life in Black America. At the book’s center […]