Banned and Dangerous Art will be offered again Fall 2010.

Spring 2010 is Aesthetics.

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Is this a Dangerous Poem?

THE POOL PLAYERS.

SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

[From The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks, Harpers. 1960.]

This poem, by Gwendolyn Brooks, was banned in West Virginia and Nebraska schools.  Listen to Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poem–should it have been banned?