CELEBRATING THE PROLIFIC LUCILLE CLIFTON !
Expired on Februay 13, 2010 at the age of 73http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lucille_Clifton/Defaultclifton.htm
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Distinguished Poet, Author, Humanitarian, Poet Laureate, National Book Award Recipient, Professor, an American Literary Giant, Her book: “Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980” (BOA, 1987) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1988. She won in 2001 for ‘Blessing the Boats.’ She was also the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
BORN:
Thelma Lucille Sayles was born on June 27, 1936, in Depew, N.Y., and reared in nearby Buffalo.
MARRIED:
In 1958 she married Fred Clifton and together they had six children.
Some of Ms. Clifton’s early work was published in “The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970” (Doubleday, 1970), edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.
The Poet Society of America will honor Lucille as planned on April 1, 2010, at 7pm at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, New York.
This prominent woman shook the literary world with her exuberance and honesty.
May her works continue to inspire and leave indelible impressions in our hearts and minds.
We love you Sister Lucille!
let there be new flowering
by Lucille Clifton
let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end
poery from: http://www.literary-arts.org/pim/poems/1997/16/
Expressing Thanksgiving & Joy!
Linda Mose Meadows, Author & Inspirational Columnist:
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