Gwendolyn Over Everything: Specificity, Humanity, and Class in 'Beverly Hills, Chicago' https://poets.org/text/gwendolyn-over-everything-specificity-humanity-and-class-beverly-hills-chicago A contributor to the website poets.org describes their childhood relationship with Brooks' poem, "Beverly Hills, Chicago." Krista Franklin reads "Beverly Hills, Chicago" by Gwendolyn Brooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4C4fzvZuLk