“The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel…” This was the scene that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) to write her landmark 1959 poem, “We Real Cool“. This paper-cut puppetry video, commissioned by the Poetry Foundation and created by Manual Cinema in association with Crescendo Literary,...
“The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel…” This was the scene that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) to write her landmark 1959 poem, “We Real Cool“. This paper-cut puppetry video, commissioned by the Poetry Foundation and created by Manual Cinema in association with Crescendo Literary,...
