3. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, and her poem “We Real Cool” is among her most famous works. Published in 1959 ...

in "A Rain Dream," "The Snow Shower," "The Night Journey of a River," and particularly in "The Song of the Sower," a truly American poem, honoring the wide extended labors of the husbandman ...