A sculpture is honoring Gwendolyn Brooks – a poet and author, the first African-American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In her poems, she used to write about everyday people and problems and believed that poetry can change the world.
Dedicated on June 7th, 2018, this is the first sculpture of an African-American woman in a Chicago public park. The bronze portrait, made by Margot McMahon, is surrounded by a circle of sitting-stones. McMahon created the sculpture to educate people about Brooks’s life and legacy by engaging with the statue.
A step-stone path, inscribed with quotations from Brooks’ award-winning poetry book “Annie Allen,” leads the visitors to a wooden porch which represents the one in Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, where the poet wrote her first poems as a child.
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