Report From Part Two is the second installment in the autobiography of Gwendolyn Brooks. In it, Brooks shares with her extended literary family her own family's gifts of words and wisdom. Report From Part Two, much like its companion volume Report From Part One, provides insightful, frank, and honest commentary on life, poetics and politics. In Report From Part Two, Brooks offers thoughts on the making of poetry and thoughts on contemporary poets and writers. This work includes the Jefferson Lecture, and her National Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech.

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer prize (1950), and she was the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress and the Poet Laureate of Illinois.