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Gwendolyn Brooks

http://www.zphib1920.org/heritage/notable_zetas.html

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=7762&page=3&highlight=brooks

How many Guggenheim Fellowships has she recieved?

~ 69.148.174.162 01:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

gwendolyn brooks

why gwendolyn brooks encycleopedia does not have an infobox with the date of birth,and the place where she was born,and the date of death,and the place of death,added with how old she was

gwendolyn brooks

why gwendolyn brooks encycleopedia does not have an infobox with the date of birth,and the place where she was born,and the date of death,and the place of death,added with how old she was —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.16.158.190 (talk) 19:36, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

gwendolyn brooks

when y'all was printing encycleopedias,why did y'all forgot to put and infomation box on gwendolyn brooksʔ when y'all get ready,can you put an infomation box on gwendolyn brooks ʔ when y'all put the infomation box on gwendolyn brooks,can y'all put when and where she was born and when and when she diedʔ here's an example; born= june 7,1917 topekka,kanas [united states] died= december 3,2000 chicago,illinois[aged 83] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.120.227 (talk) 20:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3 year old poetry genius!!!! (apparently)

It says in the info box that she was born on 1917, yet her writing period began in 1917. That can't be right. Are you sure she started writing poems at 3 years old? It doesn't seem to make sense, but I guess it could happen.99.54.173.160 (talk) 04:38, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hi

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.51.65.226 (talk) 18:07, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

references

This reads like an essay (and quite a good one, actually). But it needs references. Is it mostly derived from a single source, or WP:OR, or compiled from WP:RS but the refs not added? DavidOaks (talk) 19:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excerpt

Why exactly is this section here? Am I wrong in thinking that it is a little out-of-the-ordinary, and somewhat jarring? If it is worthy of being a section unto itself (or included in the way that it is) it should at the very least be expanded with a couple more lines from the poem and some more context. Frankly, though, it seems like unless the excerpt is necessary in reference to something else it's fairly extraneous. Someone that wants an example of her poetry need merely go to an external source - it's not as though "We Real Cool" is hard to find. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.81.91.112 (talk) 07:47, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What is a "children's life box"?

74.96.36.168 (talk) 14:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]