Tag: Gwendolyn Brooks

• * twinklings & twinges: gwendolyn brooks

  This week, I had the opportunity to share and discuss excerpts from The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop with my intermediate composition class. Along with the poems, we also read some of the Ars Poeticas & Essays included in the anthology. Going between poems and prose allowed me to supplement the…

  José Angel Araguz

  June 10, 2016

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• * sunsetting with gwendolyn brooks

  A Sunset of the City – Gwendolyn Brooks Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night. It is a real chill out,…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 27, 2015

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