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In 1988, Clifton became the first author to have two books of poetry named finalists for one year's Pulitzer Prize. (The award dates from 1981, the announcement of finalists from 1980.) [ 22 ] She won the 1991/1992 Shelley Memorial Award , the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry , and for Blessing the Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988 ...
Produced in collaboration with the Ms. Foundation for Women, [1] it was a record album and illustrated book first released in November 1972 featuring songs and stories sung or told by celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") including Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack ...
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Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers: History Allan Nevins: The Organized War: 1973 Biography James Thomas Flexner: George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799: History [a] Robert Manson Myers: The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War: Isaiah ...
In 1989, former Poet Laureate of Maryland, Lucille Clifton, who was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and also winner of an Emmy Award, joined the faculty at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1990, [73] thereby becoming one of the school's most prominent faculty members in its history. [73]
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The name of the center comes from Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "Second Sermon on the Warpland." In the poem she writes: The time. cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face. all unashamed. And sways in wicked grace. [5] Gabbin was the director of the James Madison University's Honors Program. She hosted the first Furious Flower Poetry Conference in ...
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