Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010)

Her first book of poems, Good Times (1969), was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times.

Lucille Clifton was the author of several other collections of poetry, including Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000, which won the National Book Award; Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Two-Headed Woman, also a Pulitzer Prize nominee as well as the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize. Clifton was also the author of Generations: A Memoir and more than sixteen books for children, written expressly for an African-American audience.

“In contrast to much of the poetry being written today—intellectualized lyricism characterized by an application of inductive thought to unusual images—Lucille Clifton’s poems are compact and self-sufficient…Her revelations then resemble the epiphanies of childhood and early adolescence, when one’s lack of preconceptions about the self-allowed for brilliant slippage into the metaphysical, a glimpse into an egoless, utterly thingful and serene world.” – Rita Dove

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Deadline for submissions: June 18, 2021 | Click here to submit

Program: June 27, 2021