Chicago, IL: Poetry Foundation, 2017. First Printing. Softcover. “Gwendolyn Brooks began sending poems to this magazine when she was in high school. ‘I see myself at fourteen,’ she later wrote, ‘when I first began to pound at the gates of the magazine Poetry! It was a fourteen-year siege.’ The gates at last opened and two poems of hers appeared in our November 1944 issue, beginning a long relationship. Of the..... More