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The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks

Edited by Peter Kahn, Edited by Ravi Shankar, Edited by Patricia Smith, By (author) Terrance Hayes

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The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Awardâ€“winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writersâ€”including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureateâ€”have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooksâ€™s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooksâ€™s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.