On Gwendolyn Brooks / Mildred R. Mickle --
Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks / Charles M. Israel, William T. Lawlor --
The Paris review perspective / Jascha Hoffman --
The historical and social context of Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Kathy Rugoff --
The critical reception and influence of Gwendolyn Brooks / Martin Kich --
Gwendolyn Brooks and the epic tradition / Matthew J. Bolton --
Close reading as an approach to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock" / Robert C. Evans --
Sweet bombs / Danielle Chapman --
The satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Brooke Kenton Horvath --
Double consciousness, modernism, and womanist themes in Gwendolyn Brooks's "The anniad" / A. Yemisi Jimoh --
Heralding the clear obscure: Gwendolyn Brooks and apostrophe / Lesley Wheeler --
Dialectics of desire: war and the resistive voice in Gwendolyn Brooks's "Negro hero" and "Gay chaps at the bar" / Ann Folwell Stanford --
"A material collapse that is construction": history and counter-memory in Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca / John Lowney --
A prophet overheard: a juxtapositional reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca" / Sheila Hassell Hughes --
"My newish voice": rethinking Black power in Gwendolyn Brooks's Whirlwind / Raymond Malewitz --
Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry / Annette Debo --
Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / Annette Debo --
Killing John Cabot and publishing Black: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot / James D. Sullivan --
"The kindergarten of new consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood / Richard Flynn.