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Also Known As	Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Born	June 7, 1917 • Topeka • Kansas
Died	December 3, 2000 (aged 83) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works	“A Street in Bronzeville” • “Annie Allen” • “Blacks” • “Children Coming Home” • “In the Mecca” • “Primer for Blacks” • “Report from Part One” • “Report from Part Two” • “Selected Poems” • “The Bean Eaters” • “The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems” • “Winnie” • “Young Poet’s Primer”

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Ntozake Shange

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June Jordan.

June Jordan

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Sylvia Plath

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Conrad Aiken.

Conrad Aiken

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Phyllis McGinley

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

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Rita Dove

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Carolyn Wells

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Eunice Tietjens

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Maya Angelou

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Claude McKay

Claude McKay

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

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Bebe Moore Campbell

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Merwin, W.S.

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Robert Lowell, Jr.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

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