Inside The Mecca By Gwendolyn Brooks

I was born in Barron, Wisconsin to my Mom and Dad, Jennie and Jesse Nitchey. When I was brought home While I was being born my parents where in the process of building our three story house that we still call home today.

I was born on April 23, 1994 in Brampton, Ontario. I have lived in Brampton my entire life. I completed my undergraduate degree at University of Toronto, and now I am here at York University completing my BEd. I am someone who values helping others above anything else, which is why my dream has always been to become a teacher. This is something that I will accomplish, and nothing will stop me from achieving my dreams!

We have produced marvelous pieces of art, dynamic architecture, discovered intelligent theories and ideas, even created significant clothing, jewelry and a multitude of other things. We possess a vast amount of talent that ranges from singers, dancers, writers, entertainers, musicians, poets, actors and actresses. One of my favorite pastimes is poetry. But in order to understand my passion for poetry we must first understand the origins of poetry, and learn about some of the notable African American poets of the past who have paved the way. There are many great African American artists that were very talented poets. Artists such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Gwendolyn Bennett are just a few African Americans who had a momentous influence on writing and poetry in our culture.

My poems were published in Poetry A Magazine of Verse. I won a cash award for best poems of the year and was discovered by publisher Alfred Harcourt.My daughter Janet was born June 26. I joined the Chicago Daily News as a reporter, and I was hired by the Newspaper Enterprise Association to travel to Norway and Sweden as a correspondent covering World War II. My daughter Helga was born on November 24. Cornhuskers was published and I return to work at the Chicago Daily News. The Chicago Race Riots was published. When I started writing the book started to talking to me. With poet and novelist Margaret Widdemer, I shared the National Poetry Society of America prize the forerunner of the official Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, formally established in 1922. The 1919 award, funded in part by Columbia University, honors Cornhuskers.Smoke and Steel was published and Slabs of the Sunburnt West was published, as well as my first book for children, Rootabaga Stories. Rootabaga Pigeons was

I want to write poems that will be meaningful( poetryfoundation.org).” This awe-inspiring quote by Gwendolyn Brooks herself shows the purpose behind her career and what anyone can accomplish if they have the drive to do so. Brooks fully fulfilled and delivered on this mantra. Her first collection of poetry A Street in Bronzeville ( released in 1945) was a great success and received many honors ( biography.com). Both of her two autobiographies took heavy criticism which Brooks vehemently refuted saying, “They wanted a list of domestic spats (poetryfoundation.org).” Writing only one novel Martha Maud, Brooks did not dabble to often in prose ( poets.org). Annie Allen , which won a Pulitzer Prize, and In The Mecca, which received a National Book Award in poetry, are her two greatest works(poets.org). The awards she acquired for her works are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, among many others (poets.org). All of these allowed her to become a teacher and speaker of literature specifically poetry at many universities throughout her life and the Poet Laureate of both Illinois and the United States (biography.com; poets.org ). Along with these government positions came a much more political

Hughes brings out such a strong message in this work that it is not just relevant to the year it was written (1938), but has an extremely strong purpose and voice today. Langston Hughes did not have the easiest life. One can see those struggles, especially through this poem. He was an African American author born in 1902, and raised by his grandmother in his early childhood. He then went to live with his

In this section, we read six different articles about poets and their poems that they wrote. There was one article that stood out from the others, it was called “Phillis Wheatley, the Poet.” This section was about a slave who was captured at a young age and brought to America as a slave. But the young slave was different, she could read and write. Later in life she even wrote to Washington, he responded back to her. She was an example that slaves could do just more than work, she showed that they can have a lot of talent and skill. That is why in this essay I am going to write about the life of Phillis Wheatley and her poems.

I was born on May 24, 1999 in a small hospital in a town just outside the capital of Puerto Rico called Rio Piedras. I was the second and last born into a young, loving, strong couple named Selma and Edgar Sanchez. They believed that in order to live a strong, fruitful

I was born May 31, 1998 in Nampa, Idaho to parents Jonathan and Karen Bouw. My father was and still is an art professor. I grew up with the arts. I took piano, ballet, and tap lessons. I attended a charter school where everyone took theater and dance classes and where we took field trips to local theater performances.

The Nation Of Islam was organized in on July 4th 1930s by Master W. Fard Muhammad in Detroit, Michigan. “The Official Name of the Nation of Islam is: The Muhammad Mosque and/or The LostFound Members of the Nation of Islam in the West”. The middle-eastern descent founder and self-proclaimed prophet known by his followers as a divine black messiah. Master W. Fard Muhammad appointed Elijah Muhammad to a minister his last messenger. Nation Of Islam will be boxed as an unorthodox version of Islam. Freedom North chapter seven by Ula Taylor states that “although their faith was not anchored in the recitation of Arabic prayers, Islam became an organizing force that produced a community of believers determined to resist the bulwarks of Jim Crow,

I was born on October 17, 1938 in Montana. Grew up a poor kid in a poor family, I lived with my grandparents and I don't optate to toot my own horn, but I was a pretty tough kid. I genuinely set a school record for the most sit ups and push ups.

I was born on January 27,1921 in Denison ,Iowa. I was the oldest of five

Prior to reading an excerpt on Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy in the book Introduction to Islam by Carole Hillenbrand, I did not realized the tremendous effect and contributions Muslims had on the fields of theology and philosophy. According to Hillenbrand, “the term normally used for “theology” in Islam is kalam, which literally means “speech”” (Hillenbrand, 170). Similar to all religions, those following the Islamic faith would eventually be faced with opposition and questions about the teachings of Islam. Hillenbrand explained that Muhammad was not looked to as a theological figure because he merely gained his revelations from the all-knowing God, Allah; therefore, Islamic theologians would begin to emerge overtime. These Islamic theologians would engage in debates on core issues and topics that oppositioners had with the islamic faith, such as

Gwendolyn Brooks is among the most distinguished African-American poets of the twentieth century. With the publication of her second volume of poetry, Annie Allen (1949), she became the first black American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. Noted traditional forms and poignant evocation of urban black experience, Brooks emerged as a leading black literary figure during the 1950s and 1960s. her lyrical poetry addresses racial injustice, poverty, and the private struggles of young black women with exceptional precision, psychological depth, and authenticity. In addition to Annie Allen, Brooks is best known for A Street in Bronzeville (1945), The Bean Eaters (1960), In the Mecca (1968), and her only novel, Maud Martha (1953). During the late 1960s, Brooks embraced the Black Power and Black Arts movements, marking a dramatic shift in her poetry toward increasingly polemical declarations of black pride and African cultural nationalism.

Criticism: People in the Catholic Church saw her as a trader because she supports Islam