Buttonwood Hollow Antiques. Death In 1980, Crosscup died of heart failure, and Bennett herself died from cardiovascular complications on May 30, 1981, aged 78, at Reading Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania. Successes in poetry Throughout her life, Bennett attained success in different fields of work. She was a poet, short-story writer, columnist, journalist, illustrator, graphic artist, arts educator, teacher and administrator on the New York City Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project (1935–41). Bennett's poems appeared in journals published during the Harlem Renaissance: The Crisis, Opportunity, William Stanley Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse (1927), Yearbook of American Poetry (1927), Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1927), and James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry (1931). Bibliography Short stories 1926 – "Wedding Day", Fire!! 1927 – "Tokens", Ebony & Topaz Non-fiction 1926–28 — "The Ebony Flute" (column), Opportunity 1924 — "The Future of the Negro in Art", Howard University Record (December) 1925 — "Negros: Inherent Craftsmen", Howard University Record (February) 1928 — "The American Negro Paints", Southern Workman (January) 1934 — "I go to Camp", Opportunity (August) 1934 — "Never the Twain Must Meet", Opportunity (March) 1935 — "Rounding the Century: Story of the Colored Orphan Asylum & Association for the Benefit of Colored Children in New York City", Crisis (June) 1937 — "The Harlem Artists Guild", Art Front (May) Poetry 1923 — "Heritage", Opportunity (December) 1923 — "Nocturne", Crisis (November) 1924 — "To Usward", Crisis (May) and Opportunity (May) 1924 — "Wind", Opportunity (November) 1925 — "On a Birthday", Opportunity (September) 1925 — "Pugation", Opportunity (February) 1926 — "Song", Palms (October) 1926 — "Street Lamps in Early Spring", Opportunity (May) 1926 — "Lines Written At the Grave of Alexandre Dumas", Opportunity (July) 1926 — "Moon Tonight", Gypsy (October) 1926 — "Hatred", Opportunity (June) 1926 — "Dear Things", Palms (October) 1926 — "Dirge", Palms (October) Her work is featured in numerous anthologies of the period, including the following: Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1924) Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925) William Braithwaite's Yearbook of American Poetry (1927) Selected writings 2018 – Bennett, Gwendolyn. Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance: Gwendolyn Bennett's Selected Writings. Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. References Sources https://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bennett/life.htm https://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bennett/life.htm Gwendolyn Bennett at poets.org From The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford