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Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) was an American poet, writer, and teacher. She was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, and her awards included the Juniper Prize for Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Book Award, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lucille Clifton is known for her themes of family, community, politics, womanhood, the spirit, and the African American experience.

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Refuge Temple: Thinking About Lucille Clifton

I encountered Lucille Clifton’s poetry for the first time not even as a poem, but as a lyric in Ani Difranco’s “Lost Woman Song,” which was about her experience going to have an abortion and having to walk past the picket line of Moral Majority protesters...

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The Voice of a Visionary, Not a Victim. Lucille Clifton’s Poetry

Clifton celebrates the beauty and strength of a creation that endures. This theme gives spine to her self-portrait: “..for deLawd people say they have a hard time understanding how i go about my business playing my ray charles hollering at the kids...”

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In Praise of Lucille Clifton

The poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose new collection is “Felon,” on the writer who helped him come to terms with himself.

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Poet of the Soul Lucille Clifton Draws on Her Buffalo Roots for Healing Verse

"She sits at a desk tucked against the wall of the room. Around her head glides a chorus of angels. Photos, drawings and paintings, die-cut, framed or unframed. The room fairly glows with the spirit of Lucille Clifton. She speaks of family with lucid, sometimes brutal memory, always loving.

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Insights on Lucille Clifton from a Conversation with Tara Betts

You wrote that Lucille Clifton “reinforced in so many ways that I should keep writing.” In what ways was she a guide and a mentor to you, on the page and in person?

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(Feeling) at Home in America with Lucille Clifton

I love how Clifton casts nets of inclusion and exclusion simply by naming and then renaming her place in the world. And, also, her line breaks! I love her line breaks. - Camille T. Dungy

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Lucille Clifton Dies at 73; Award-Winning Poet

"When Lucille Clifton was a girl in the 1940s, she saw her mother burning poems in their furnace. A grade-school dropout who loved words and wrote traditional verse, her mother had an offer to publish her work in a book, but her husband and children scorned the idea of a poet in the family.

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The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton

"It all began one night in 1976, when the poet Lucille Clifton was lightheartedly using a Ouija board with two of her daughters. The board began to spell out the name of Clifton’s mother, Thelma.

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Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton

Clifton is clear about the psychic cost of what needs to be done to live better, or to live well at all, such as clearing out of the way unwanted living things. She herself had seen the matter from both sides. - Jordan Davis

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No Ordinary Woman: Lucille Clifton

"Well, I loved words always, and my mother used to write poetry, so I saw it as something to do. I think everyone has in his or her self the urge to express, and people do it with what they love, I suppose."

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