Gwendolyn Brooks has been played on NTS in shows including Phil's Jazz Dis-Junction, featured first on 7 February 2021. Songs played include Kitchenette Building.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas to Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. Brooks' mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and her father, the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given up his ambition to attend medical school to work as a janitor. When Brooks was only six weeks old, her family…