Lucille Clifton, edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser, forward by Toni Morrison. BOA (Consortium, dist.), $35 (802p) ISBN 978-1-934414-90-3 Clifton (1936–2010) was undeniably a major American ...

From 1968 to 1980, the Clifton family made their home on Talbot Road in Baltimore’s Windsor Hills. The rolling, forested terrain and the wood, shingles, and brick of the homes, with their signs ...

In this episode, an award-winning poet discusses editing a book of poems by an award-winning poet—“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”, edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary ...

The poet Lucille Clifton, one of the most distinct voices of the past forty years, and the former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Baltimore.

I have a memory of Lucille Clifton responding to a young poet who asked her how she managed to be a productive publishing poet despite having to raise six children, by saying, “I wrote shorter poems.” ...

The opening lines of one of Lucille Clifton’s best-known poems read: “Won’t you celebrate with me, what I have shaped into a kind of life? I had no model.” Suggested Reading Lizzo Makes This Bold New ...

Our “Weekly Poem” is by Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist who died Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 73. Clifton’s sister, Elaine Philip of ...

>> SORT OF A TRIUMPH FOR MY PARENTS. 40 YEARS AGO LUCILLE AND HER ACTIVIST HUSBAND FRED CLIFTON LOST THIS WINDSOR HILLS HOME TO FORECLOSURE. ON THE NINTH ANNVERSARRY OF HER MOTHER LUCILLE’S DEATH, LOS ...

Tell Me More remembers poet and author Lucille Clifton. In 2007, Clifton became the first black woman to win the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement by the Poetry Foundation. She was ...

A self-taught poet born in Depew, New York to working class parents, Lucille Clifton began writing at an early age. She cultivated her spare and powerful verse while attending Fredonia State Teachers ...