2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Gwendolyn Brooks. Check out this really cool video featuring her best known work “We Real Cool.”
O at the Edges
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O at the Edges 
Our nearby recreation center has a pool table that I use on a semi-regular basis, and I can’t help but think of “We Real Cool” whenever I play pool (well, except that I’m not real cool!). I had no idea it had been 100 years since her birth, though. Thanks for sharing, Bob!
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Yeah, that describes me. Not cool, that is. But the video is!
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Love the video. I would have been happy to have one poem that endures…even one line.
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Oh, I know! To write one memorable poem!
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This is excellent. And now I know why it’s called a Golden Shovel poem. A form I seem to be using frequently lately…(K)
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If I ever knew, it had slipped my mind. But so much does. 🙂
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Thank you Robert. They did a wonderful job with the video. It strikes me that the poem is still fresh partly because new versions of the seven are still out there every day.
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Really creative video. And I think you’re right about the freshness.
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“…and he had seen the lovers in the little side-streets,
and she had heard the morning stories clogged with sweets.
It was quite a time for loving. It was midnight. It was May.
But in the crowding darkness not a word did they say…”
Ahhhh… Gwendolyn Brooks. She deserved more than one Pulitzer Prize.
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You’ll get no argument from me!
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Simplicity can be flawless…
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Yes!
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Manual Cinema are local heroes of mine! (I’m 3 hrs from Chicago; they came up and performed their “Lula Del Rey” this spring.) Hoping hard that they bring this show to us!
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I’d love to see the show.
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