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Lucille Clifton on resilience

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Poetry Everywhere: “Won’t You Celebrate with Me” by Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton reads her poem “won’t you celebrate with me.”

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Lucille Clifton
2009
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Lucille Clifton Talks of Her Books of Poems, Including “Good Times”

Former Maryland poet laureate Roland Flint hosts Lucille Clifton, who won the National Book Award for Blessing of the Boats. Flint and Clifton discuss her work.

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Lucille Clifton
2012
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected.

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Lucille Clifton
2020
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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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Kazim Ali
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Lucille Clifton Reads “Won’t You Celebrate with Me”

A glorious ode to claiming one’s belonging in that space between starshine and clay.

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Maria Popova
2015
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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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Louise Continelli
1995
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