The New Yorker - USA (2022-01-31)

In 1950, the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, in

any category, for her second collection, “Annie Allen.” Twenty years later, she donated the proceeds from

“Riot”—poems about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.—to its publisher, the Black-owned

Broadside Press. Both books are among a variety of first editions, broadsides, and manuscripts on view

in “Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in the Community,” opening at the Morgan Library on Jan. 28.

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