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Lucille Clifton on self expression

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Sisters, from My Girls, No. 3 (Lucille Clifton, Gwyneth Walker) - Femmes De Chanson - April 2013

The Femmes de Chanson perform in the Memorial Chapel at the University of Maryland.

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Lucille Clifton
2013
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Lucille Clifton 1936–2010

The Poetry Foundation remembers Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). Awarding the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize to Clifton in 2007, the judges remarked that “One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton’s poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don’t.”

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Poetry Foundation
2010
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Lucille Clifton Talks of Her Books of Poems, Including “Good Times”

Former Maryland poet laureate Roland Flint hosts Lucille Clifton, who won the National Book Award for Blessing of the Boats. Flint and Clifton discuss her work.

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Lucille Clifton
2012
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Insights on Lucille Clifton from a Conversation with Tara Betts

You wrote that Lucille Clifton “reinforced in so many ways that I should keep writing.” In what ways was she a guide and a mentor to you, on the page and in person?

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Tara Betts
2020
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Lucille Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows

Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.

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Lucille Clifton
2016
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Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, 21 May 1996

Lucille Clifton read from The Book of Light and The Terrible Stories on May 21, 1996. Ms. Clifton was interviewed by Quincy Troupe, whose five books of poetry include Avalanche, Weather Reports, and Snake-Back Solos.

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Lucille Clifton
2010
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No Ordinary Woman: Lucille Clifton

"Well, I loved words always, and my mother used to write poetry, so I saw it as something to do. I think everyone has in his or her self the urge to express, and people do it with what they love, I suppose."

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Hilary Holladay
2010
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Poetry Breaks: Lucille Clifton on What Poetry Is

Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations.

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Lucille Clifton
2017
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(Feeling) at Home in America with Lucille Clifton

I love how Clifton casts nets of inclusion and exclusion simply by naming and then renaming her place in the world. And, also, her line breaks! I love her line breaks. - Camille T. Dungy

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Camille T. Dungy
2018
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