Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet...
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Lucille Clifton ('Wii Nii Puun) (1876–1962) was a leader of the Gitga'ata people, specifically the Laxsgiik (Eagle Clan). She was designated a National...
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The 2018 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press Finalist in the Ruth Lilly Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Fellowship. The Lucille Clifton Legacy Award...
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Published by William Morrow in 1995, Most Way Home was selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series and won Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis...
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Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1885–1889) Lucille Clifton, 1955 – American poet Gaelen Foley, 1991 – author Greta Morine-Dershimer...
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"actual" poets", citing Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, Sharon Olds and Lucille Clifton. Rebecca Watts lambasted her poems as "artless" and characterised by...
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Harlem perform "Sisters and Brothers." Tyson reads "Three Wishes" by Lucille Clifton, a folktale about a girl who gets three wishes after finding a penny...
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Pat Parker. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985. I. at Jonestown, by Lucille Clifton. Next. Brockport: BOA, 1989. The Peoples Temple. Written by Leigh Fondakowski...
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Dennis Brutus (1987) Octavia Butler (2005) Alice Childress (1990) Lucille Clifton (2003) Jayne Cortez (2001) Edwidge Danticat (2011) Rita Dove (2019)...
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board of the Academy of American Poets, along with Yusef Komunyakaa, Lucille Clifton, Jay Wright (who declined the honor), Louise Glück, Heather McHugh...
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