When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.


"An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)


When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.