Presentations

1: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

Angela Jackson, writer and poet

2: Brooks after the New Negro Renaissance

Sonya Posmentier, New York U

3: ‘Not Too Dirty nor Too Dim’: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks in the Age of New Black Feminism and #BlackGirlMagic

Destiny O. Birdsong, Vanderbilt U

Presider

Miriam Thaggert, U of Iowa