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The Poetry Foundation remembers Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). Awarding the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize to Clifton in 2007, the judges remarked that “One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton’s poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don’t.”
“Always leave a place better than how you found it,” the award-winning poet Lucille Clifton used to tell her daughter, Sidney.
"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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