07/2007
TRIBUTE ISSUE TO GWENDOLYN BROOKS
As we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks the nineteenth issue of Mosaic pays tribute through poetry, essays, and recollections on the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
ESSAYS
The Way of All Bridges, In Memory of Gwendolyn Brooks
by Afaa Michael Weaver
How I Fell So Deeply In Love With Us
by Kalamu ya Salaam
Parents: From Report From Part One
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn’s Gatekeeper: An Interview with Nichole Shields
by Tara Betts
The Poet in the House on Evans Ave.
by S. Brandi Barnes
Indispensable Maud Martha
by Asali Solomon
Giant Steps: First-person Observation of Ms. Brooks’ Guiding Hand by Quraysh Ali Lansana
POEMS
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Jane Addams
by Gwendolyn Brooks
No Ordinary Waterfall (for Gwen Brooks)
by Kalamu ya Salaam
Eighty-three is a Wise Number by Haki R. Madhubuti
The Other by Gwendolyn A. Mitchell
20/20 For Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000 by Joy Gonsalves
Three Kinds of Edges for P.S. by Christian Campbell
She Real Cool: Woman With the Golden Pen
by Nagueyalti Warren
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Click here to listen to Gwendolyn Brooks reading “We Real Cool”
A Life in Art and Service An Interview with Danny Simmons
by DuEwa M. Frazier
REVIEWS
The New Moon’s Arm by Nalo Hopkinson
Reviewed by Stacia L. Brown
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
by William Jelani Cobb
Reviewed by Danielle A. Jackson
African Psycho: Killer in Training by Alain Mabanckou
Reviewed by Ozioma Egwuonwu
Ace of Spades by David Matthew
Reviewed by Kim Rose