Past Event

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Writing Workshop

Join us for this Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Writing Workshop

Speakers include:

  • Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter Nora Brooks Blakely
  • Teaching artist Timothy Rey
  • High School poet Aanika Pfister

We will walk through writing prompts, the history of Gwendolyn Brooks and the poetry awards, hear from an award-winning high school poet, and then include tips for incorporating poetry into the classroom.

RSVP today!

For more information, please contact Mark Hallett at mark.hallett@ilhumanities.org.