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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 ...
Poem: Where poem previously appeared: Dick Allen "The Selfishness of the Poetry Reader" The Café Review: John Balaban "Story" Verse: Coleman Barks "Bill Matthews Coming Along (1942-1997)" Figdust: George Bilgere "Catch" The Sewanee Review: Elizabeth Bishop "Foreign-Domestic" Conjunctions: Chana Bloch "Tired Sex" The Atlantic Monthly: Philip Booth
"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." —e.e. Cummings "Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon."
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as ...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
Published by William Morrow in 1995, [7] Most Way Home was selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series and won Ploughshares ' John C. Zacharis First Book Award. [8] Writing in Ploughshares , Rob Arnold observes that in that first book Young "explores his own family's narratives, showing an uncanny awareness of voice and persona."
On top of her personal theme, involving family and relationships, exhibited in her work, Major has said that Lucille Clifton has been an inspiration for much of her work. Originally named Thelma Lucille Sayles, Lucille Clifton was born June 27, 1936, in Depew, NY and died on February 13, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland.