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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 first set of poems was "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, and "Let There Be New Flowering" by Lucille Clifton. Since then, poems by more than 100 different authors have been featured.
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 ...
This Time: New and Selected Poems: 1999 Ai: Vice: New and Selected Poems: 2000 Lucille Clifton: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000: 2001 Alan Dugan: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry: 2002 Ruth Stone: In the Next Galaxy: 2003 C. K. Williams: The Singing: 2004 Jean Valentine: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems ...
Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958–1998: Sherod Santos: The Pilot Star Elegies: C.K. Williams: Repair† 2000 [47] Lucille Clifton: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000: Winner Kim Addonizio: Tell Me: Finalist Galway Kinnell: A New Selected Poems: Kenneth Koch: New Addresses: Poems: Bruce Smith: The Other Lover ...
The justices concluded that the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals needs to clarify its ruling that Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence for a 1997 murder must be set aside in light ...
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.
The FFPC held a tribute to the late poet Lucille Clifton, a prestigious Black female writer and a recipient of the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. The event was also another partnership with an outside organization, Virginia Tech Steger Poetry Prize. Director Joanne Gabbin personally worked with Nikki Giovanni to plan this tribute.