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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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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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