Gwendolyn Brooks

"We Real Cool": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

"The Mother": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15829

"The Bean Eaters": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15913

"A Song in the Front Yard": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172082

"the vacant lot": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172085