The essential Gwendolyn Brooks

From a Street in Bronzeville (1945)

From Annie Allen (1949)

From The womanhood

From The Bean Eaters (1960)

From selected poems (1963)

From In the Mecca (1968)

From Riot (1969)

From Family Pictures (1970)

From Beckonings (1975)

From Primer for Blacks (1980)

From The Near-Johannesburg Boy (1986)

From Children Coming Home (1991)

From In Montgomery and Other Poems (2003).