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Chicago State University Gwendolyn Brooks Center: www.csu.edu/gwendolynbrooks/index.htm

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Elizabeth Alexander Resources
http://elizabethalexander.net/home.html
Cave Canem is delighted to congratulate founding faculty member Elizabeth Alexander on her recent selection as Inaugural Poet.    For more information follow this link: Elizabeth Alexander Named Inaugural Poet .
In her brilliant inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day," Elizabeth Alexander rises to the challenge of setting a tone that is now the tone of the nation's leader: restrained and resolute, deeply aware of the past and looking toward the future, seeing "someting better down the road" and having the love and courage to get there. In April 2008 when it was not clear that Barack Obama would prevail over Senator Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Nominee of President, I left Elizabeth Alexander a message on her phone.  I said, "Get your inaugural poem ready."  I said this more as a prayer than prophecy.  I felt strongly that she would be chosen and just wanted so much for the occasion to be happen.  Alexander's poem is rich in the knowledge of cultural struggle, the spiny presence of protest, and the light of promise.  She did in this poem that was heard around the world more than she could have imagined to point our way forward. Joanne Gabbin  Friday, Jan 23, 2009
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2009 NAACP Image Awards, Feb 12, 2009  http://www.naacpimageawards.net/40/win_lit.php Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
"Hardheaded Weather" - Cornelius Eady (Marian Wood Books), http://www.nd.edu/~alcwp/CorneliusEady.html "Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration of "Poetry With A Beat" - Nikki Giovanni (Source Books/Jabberwocky), http://nikki-giovanni.com/index.shtml "Honoring the Ancestors" - James Cherry (Third World Press) "Things I Must Have Known" - A B Spellman (Coffee House Press) "Warhorses" - Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/home
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Database of African American Poetry: 1790-1900: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/aapd/
A research database published by The Academy of American Poetry: http://www.poets.org/
A list of internet databases on American poetry: http://bubl.ac.uk/Link/a/americanpoetry.htm
The Modern American Poetry database at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
The Project on the History of Black Writing at University of Kansas: http://www.ku.edu/~phbw/
Poetry Database (in progress) at The Project on the History of Black Writing at University of Kansas: http://www.ku.edu/~phbw/Projects.htm
Poetry Daily Visit this site and read a new poem each day. The site features one poem, biographical information on the poet, and information on one of his or her books. http://www.poems.com
Gwendolyn Brooks Resources
A Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks by Gale Thompson Publishing
Great Women of the Hall - Gwendolyn Brooks page
Joanne V. Gabbin's Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks: http://jmu.edu/furiousflower/tribute.shtml
Rita Dove's Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks: http://furiousflower/dove_tribute_brooks.shtml
Langston Hughes Resources
Langston Hughes National Poetry Project at the University of Kansas: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/hughes