Poet in Bronzeville

Destination Freedom Destination Freedom, dramatizations of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people, is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own destination freedom. Mid-West America has long been the cradle for some of the nation's most outstanding creative writers.

Upholing the rich tradition of her region is the poet Gwendolyn Brooks of Chicago. In a chapter entitled, Poet in Brownsville, Destination Freedom introduces you to one of the new stars of Midwestern literature. Miss Brooks will read one of her own poems at the end of her story.

Somewhere in the middle of the Wind of City, on a street in Bronzeville, near the end of the afternoon, her typewriter was remembering the way the neighbours looked, and working out the crossword puzzle of people's lives and ideas.

Competing with a heavy roar of the air that hustled by, so close to her window she could reach out and touch the steel pillars of stop-titing and stare back at the curious passengers for memorable split second before the coaches look at her down the line. Then the typewriter remembers again the life in the neighborhood and clicks on until the bell

rings as she reaches up and press the door release. Give the street door downstairs an unlocked moment sit back at the keys. Wonder at something of the guests coming up the steps. Wonder who they are, where they came from and why they found their way to her door. Here there's steps, hit the second floor platform. Hesitate down the hall

before apartment five, knock, boldly on the wrong door. And here the curious Mrs Montgomery opened it. I am my dear young lady. We're looking for a young woman who writes poetry. Do you happen to be the poetist in the building, Mrs Montgomery? No, I'm glad to say the only tenant crazy enough be doing anything like that in apartment one.