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When awarding Clifton with this prize, judges remarked: One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton's poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don't." [ 18 ] This testifies to Clifton's reputation as a poet whose work focuses on overcoming adversity, family, and endurance from the perspective of an African ...
The show regularly features interviews with writers from across the country. Poets featured have included Abhay K, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Francisco Aragón, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Beasley, Lucille Clifton, Cornelius Eady, Forrest Gander, Allen Ginsberg, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Richard McCann, E. Ethelbert Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Linda Pastan, Kim Roberts ...
Smothers sings "Helping", a poem by Shel Silverstein. Thomas talks to children about having a sibling, then the Voices of East Harlem perform "Sisters and Brothers." Tyson reads "Three Wishes" by Lucille Clifton, a folktale about a girl who gets three wishes after finding a penny with her birth year on New Year's Day.
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She was also awarded many honors including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2007. [6] Devorah Major has been involved in the Daughters of Yam, a poetry performance group with Opal Palmer Adisa, for over twenty years. This group as a whole has released two chapbooks, one book, a poetry and jazz cassette, and a poetry and jazz CD.
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Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems: Winner Lucille Clifton: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems: Finalist C.K. Williams: Flesh and Blood: Finalist 1989: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems: Winner Donald Hall: The One Day: Finalist [13] Garrett Hongo: The River of Heaven: Finalist