The link below leads to a recording of Gwendolyn Brooks talking about her poem "We Real Cool" and follows with her reading the poem aloud.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433
This next link leads to an online journal associated with the Anothology of Modern American Poetry that has commentary about "We Real Cool."
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/brooks/werealcool.htm
http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/brooks-gwendolyn
This link gives an interesting note from the editor of the website of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Below you can click on the link to find out more about Gwendolyn Brooks' The Bean Eaters in which "We Real Cool" is published.
If you want to learn a little more about the Black Arts Movement click below.
