She wrote a whole lot of poetry, she taught creative writing, she lectured. Brooks went on to have the type of career that poets dream of. (Seriously: it was called 'Eventide.') She went to junior college in Chicago, then started working for the NAACP, all before publishing A Street in Bronzeville, her first book of poems, in 1945. She was a pretty precocious kid she published her first poem at the age of 13.
She was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, and moved to Chicago at a young age. Gwendolyn Brooks was a pretty awesome poet if we do say so ourselves.
