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Article: FESTIVAL FANS LURK LATE FOR GWENDOLYN BROOKS, OTHER POETS.(Arts and Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 9, 2000
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Standing-room-only crowds were pounded by poetry last weekend, and exhilarated by it, too. Produced by Eleventh Hour Productions, the Seattle Poetry Festival ended Sunday night on a high note with a rousing, comic and powerfully mournful performance by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Chicago's Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 and has been going strong ever since. She's a diva of the spoken word and a heroine of rap and hip-hop artists, along with savvy English majors and their better-read professors.
Organizers at On the Boards had to supplement the usual house seats with portable chairs to accommodate her audience, a multicultural mix of ages and ...