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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 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.
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 ...
American Poetry Review: John Brehm "Sea of Faith" The Southern Review: Hayden Carruth "Because I Am" Seneca Review: Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf" River City: Billy Collins "Dharma" Poetry: Robert Creeley "Mitch" Solo: Lydia Davis "Betrayal" Hambone: Debra Kang Dean "Taproot" Crab Orchard Review: Chard deNiord ...
"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."
“Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning’s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently.” ― Douglas Adams “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of ...
BOA Editions, Ltd. is an American independent, non-profit literary publishing company located in Rochester, New York, founded in 1976 by the late poet, editor and translator, A. Poulin, Jr., [1] and publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
If so then Deceived Wisdom is the book for you. Organised into easy-to-read standalone sections, it looks at the things we think we know and examines why we don’t know them at all. There is much deceived wisdom in the world – from fit-ness fallacies to dietary deceptions and countless miscellane-ous misconceptions.