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...DIED. GWENDOLYN BROOKS, 83, prolific poet who, in 1950, was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for literature; in Chicago (see Eulogy, below...
...long time, I've pondered this thing that we do called writing. I've looked at my words sometimes as if they belonged to a stranger. But each time I teach GWENDOLYN BROOKS, each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths; they tell me where the flesh lives; where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs, "beautiful. Impudent. Ready for life." Where the young "live not for battles won. Live...
...September 1999, Gwendolyn Zahner, a psychiatric epidemiologist and former assistant professor at SPH, filed a complaint with the Office for Protection from Research Risks in Washington, D.C. questioning medical research conducted by the University...
...heroines, Gwendolyn Fairfax (Ahana Kalappa '01), the erudite, cosmopolitan salon lady and Cecily Cardew (Britanni Sonnenberg '03), the eighteen-year-old ward of John Worthing, also have their moments. As the fiancees of John and Algy, they are demanding women. They cause their men to play at being Ernest since they cannot love those who are not earnest in character, not to mention Ernest by law and sacrament. Britanni Sonnenburg is a light breeze on stage as a mischievous, innocent Cecily. Ahana Kalappa contrasts nicely as the precocious, urbane Gwendolyn, whose malapropisms are enough to throw a dictionary at. Kathryn...
...Past honorees have included poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, the first black woman to become board-certified in high-risk obstetrics--and McClelland's mother...