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Run with Read & Run Chicago guide and Black Girls Read Book Club founder Cynthia Okechukwu on a five-mile journey through Bronzeville honoring the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, often called the “Oracle of Bronzeville."
Along the way, you’ll visit places where Brooks lived, worked, and shaped Chicago’s South Side in the mid-1900s, as well as landmarks that inspired her writing about Black urban life and nurtured artists of the Black Chicago Renaissance.
The run concludes with light bites and a post-run conversation.
As with all Book Club Runs, we strongly recommend you read prior to attending. Sites along our route will be connected to poems featured in Selected Poems. Grab a copy from your local library branch or purchase from your favorite indie bookstore or online here on our Bookshop.org affilate page.