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Self-Expression by lucille clifton

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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 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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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 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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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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(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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