21. Lucille Clifton The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/lclif/

22. Lucille Clifton Short biographical and critical essays about lucille clifton and her poetry. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/clifton.htm

Photo © Christopher Felver 1987 Lucille Clifton About Lucille Clifton On "poem to my uterus" and "to my last period" On "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989" On "brothers" ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by Cary Nelson Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

23. Lucille Clifton, Poems By Lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton Poetry literary essays on the poem good times by lucille clifton, lucille clifton poems, lucille clifton point of view on racism, lucille clifton american academy http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton.html

Lucille Clifton AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o PoeticSpace.com - MySpace For Poets... Picture Brief Bio Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York. Named after her great-grandmother who, according to her father, was the first Black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia, she was raised with two half-sisters and a brother. Growing up, she recalls hearing the word 'nigger'. She knew that it wasn't her, and she thought, "'Well, I'll have to suspect everything they say, won't I?' And I've always been a very curious person, interested in a lot of things, and, so, in writing, I never thought I would be a poet," (Davis). Clifton was awarded a scholarship to Howard University, becoming the first person in her family to finish high school and consider college, entering as a drama major. After two years she lost her scholarship and told her father, "I don't need that stuff. I'm going to write poems. I can do what I want to do! I'm from Dahomey women!" It was at this point that Clifton's writing began. In a writer's group she met a man named Ishmael Reed, who showed some of her poems to Langston Hughes. He was the first to publish Clifton, premiering her work in the anthology Poetry of the Negro. Her first complete book of poems, Good Times, was published in 1969. She has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first children's book, Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970) launched her into writing children's stories. Clifton was recently interviewed as part of a major video series exploring the American phenomenon of public poetry, "The Language of Life," with Bill Moyers. She has been honored as Poet Laureate of Maryland, and currently teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

24. VG: Artist Biography: Clifton, Lucille Biographycriticism, selected bibliography, and related links. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/clifton_lucille.html

Art Praxis Bios By Name By Date By Location ... Bios Lucille Clifton b. 1936 permissions info Jump to: Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links Biography / Criticism Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York. Named after her great-grandmother who, according to her father, was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia, she was raised with two half-sisters and a brother. Growing up, she recalls hearing the word 'nigger'. She knew that it wasn't her, and she thought, "'Well, I'll have to suspect everything they say, won't I?' And I've always been a very curious person, interested in a lot of things, and, so, in writing, I never thought I would be a poet" (qtd in Davis). Clifton was awarded a scholarship to Howard University, becoming the first person in her family to finish high school and consider college, entering as a drama major. After two years she lost her scholarship and told her father, "I don't need that stuff. I'm going to write poems. I can do what I want to do! I'm from Dahomey women!" It was at this point that Clifton's writing began. In a writer's group she met a man named Ishmael Reed, who showed some of her poems to Langston Hughes. He was the first to publish Clifton, premiering her work in the anthology Poetry of the Negro. Her first complete book of poems, Good Times, was published in 1969. She has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first children's book, Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970), launched her into writing children's stories. Clifton was recently interviewed as part of "The Language of Life," with Bill Moyers, a major video series exploring the American phenomenon of public poetry. She has been honored as Poet Laureate of Maryland, and currently teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

25. Lucille Clifton Biography And Bibliography Includes clifton s On Strength Gotten from Others and a brief biography and bibliography. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/clifton-biobib.html

Lucille Clifton On Strength Gotten from Others a mini-biography a mini-bibliography References ... Contact webmaster On Strength Gotten from Others When I was 5 years old I forgot my piece. It was the annual Christmas program of Macedonia Baptist Church-a splendid affair-and all of the young Sunday school members had been given poems and recitations to memorize. I forgot mine. I remember standing there on stage in my new Christmas dress, trying not to cry as the church members smiled, nodded and murmured encouragement from the front row. "Go 'head, baby." "Say it now, Luc." "Come on now, baby" But I couldn't remember, and to hide my deep humiliation, my embarassment, I became sullen, angry. "I don' wanna." And I stood there with my mouth poked out. It was a scandal! This fresh young nobody baby standing in front of the Lord in His own house talking about what she don't want! I could feel the disapproval pouring over my new dress. Then, like a great tidal wave from the ocean of God, my sanctified mother poured down the Baptist aisle, huge as love, her hand outstretched toward mine. "Come on, baby," she smiled, then turned to address the church: "She don't have to do nothing she don't want to do."

26. Poetry Foundation: The Online Home Of The Poetry Foundation Poet lucille clifton began composing and writing stories at an early age and has been much encouraged by an evergrowing reading audience and a fine http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1304

27. Lucille Clifton Biography Originally Thelma lucille Sayles later lucille clifton was born June 27, 1936, in Depew, New York although she moved to Buffalo, New York with her family http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lucille_Clifton/Defaultclifton.htm

Echoes Main Biography Sample Poetry Inspired Poems ... Bibliography The thoughts of a Woman: Lucille Clifton by Sarah Brooks Good Times (1969). Luckily Clifton's début into the literary scene was a major success. Good Times was claimed to be one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. After this major breakthrough Clifton went on to use the teaching skills she had learned at Fredonia and held positions at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1974 to 1979, professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1985 to 1989, Distinguished Professor of Literature and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College, Maryland, from 1989 to 1991, and professor of creative writing at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, beginning in 1998, Not to mention she served as the Poet Laureate of the state of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. Clifton is one of the most accomplished women in the literary world. Owner of Pulitzer Prize nominations for poetry in 1980, 1987, and 1991, the Lannan Literary Award for poetry in 1997, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1997, the Los Angeles Times Poetry Award in 1997, the Lila Wallace/

28. Poet: Lucille Clifton - All Poems Of Lucille Clifton Poet lucille clifton All poems of lucille clifton .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/lucille-clifton/

Poem Hunter .com Poet: Lucille Clifton - All poems of Lucille Clift 1/26/2008 7:23:44 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Lucille Clifton Poems Quotations Comments More Info ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Lucille Clifton Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: A Dream of Foxes adam thinking admonitions climbing ... seeker of visions Page: Quotations "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language." Lucille Clifton (b. 1936), U.S. poet. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 9, by Mickey Pearlman (1993). "My Mama has made bread and Grampaw has come and everybody is drunk and dancing in the kitchen" Comments about Lucille Clifton There is no comment submitted by members.. Click here to write your comments about Lucille Clifton Web pages / more info about Lucille Clifton "The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems." http://www.poets.org/lclif/ Modern American Poetry: Lucille Clifton Short biographical and critical essays about Lucille Clifton and her poetry.

29. PAL: Lucille Clifton (1936- ) Wild Blessings The Poetry of lucille clifton. Baton Rouge Louisiana State UP, 2004. MLA Style Citation of this Web Page http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/clifton.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Lucille Clifton (1936- ) Modern American Poetry: LC A LC Page Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: Lane CC Primary Works The boy who didn't believe in spring. Pictures by Brinton Turkle. NY: Dutton 1973. Juv / Fiction C639 b An ordinary woman. NY: Random House 1974. PS3553 L45 O7 Three wishes. illustrated by Stephanie Douglas. NY: Viking Press, 1976. Juv / Easy C639 t Amifika. illustrated by Thomas DiGrazia. NY: Dutton, 1977. Juv / Easy C639 a Everett Anderson's nine month long. illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1978. Juv / Easy C639 e My friend Jacob. illustrated by Thomas Di Grazia. NY: Dutton, 1980. Juv / Easy C639 m The book of light. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon P, 1993. PS3553 .L45 B66 Also Good Times, Good News About the Earth

30. CBC.ca Arts - Lucille Clifton First African-American Woman To Win U.S. Poetry Pr lucille clifton, a St. Mary s, Md.,based poet and children s author, has won the $100000 US Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the largest and most http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/05/10/lucille-clifton.html

News Sports Entertainment Radio ... My Region Story Tools: E-MAIL PRINT S M ... SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Lucille Clifton first African-American woman to win U.S. poetry prize CBC Arts Lucille Clifton, a St. Mary's, Md.,-based poet and children's author, has won the $100,000 US Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious U.S. literary honours. She becomes the first African-American woman to win the prize, which honours lifetime accomplishment by a U.S. poet. Clifton has published 11 books of poetry, including two that were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, one book of prose and 19 children's books. "Lucille Clifton is a powerful presence and voice in American poetry," Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, said in a statement on Monday that announced Clifton's win. "Her poems are at once outraged and tender, small and explosive, sassy and devout. She sounds like no one else, and her achievement looks larger with each passing year."  Open lines of Homage to my Hips these hips are big hips they need space to move around in.

31. Lucille Clifton Reads Her Poetry Webcast (Library Of Congress) lucille clifton won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry for her book Blessing the Boats New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2000). http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3656

32. Lucille Clifton Reads "Turning" Emmy awardwinning poet, lucille clifton, introduces and reads her poem, Turning, about trying to be your own person and taking responsibility for your http://openvault.wgbh.org/ntw/MLA000296/index.html

@import url(/css/styles.php); var page_type ="resource"; Your List Search: Advanced Search Browse by: PEOPLE SERIES ARTS BUSINESS ... Sign in Lucille Clifton reads "Turning" ADD TO LIST SEND PAGE TO A FRIEND Back to List View Ros Barron's "Magriitte sur la Plage" more "Since you asked..," with Lucille Clifton more Poetry Breaks II, Lucille Clifton more Description Transcript Notes Series: Poetry Breaks Program: Poetry Breaks II, Lucille Clifton Date: Duration: Subject: Oral interpretation of poetry; Readings People: Clifton, Lucille Leita Hagemann Luchetti Clip Description Emmy award-winning poet, Lucille Clifton, introduces and reads her poem, "Turning," about trying to be your own person and taking responsibility for your life. Program Description Lucille Clifton was born in Depaw, New York, in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. She is the only author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in one year: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems.

33. Lucille Clifton, Maryland Women's Hall Of Fame lucille clifton is an accomplished and nationallyrecognized poet and author, college faculty member, and mother of six children. http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/clifton.html

Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton is an accomplished and nationally-recognized poet and author, college faculty member, and mother of six children. She is also the former Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton's career reflects her self-satisfaction as a strong, black woman who believes that only by accepting individual responsibility can people live a better life. Thelma Lucille Sayles was born in 1936 in Depew, New York, a small town outside of Buffalo. Her mother, a poet, encouraged her creativity and the young girl began to compose stories and poems as a child. Lucille was the first person in her family to graduate from high school and, in 1953, she won a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in drama. However, she left Howard after two years after deciding that she would rather write poetry. A year after leaving Howard, Lucille attended Fredonia State Teacher's College (now State University of New York at Fredonia). In 1958, she married Fred Clifton. Lucille Clifton's first volume of poetry, Good Times: Poems , was published in 1969. It was cited by the New York Times as one of 1969's ten best books. Since then, Clifton has published thirty volumes of poetry and books for children and adults. Her writing focuses on themes related to African-American women and families. It has been noted that her pride as a black woman has helped her write positively about overcoming the difficulties faced by those living in the inner city. In 1987, Clifton was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for

34. Lucille Clifton - Spring 2003 Feature - The Cortland Review An interview and reading with the Leading Lady of American Poetry, lucille clifton. Grace Cavalieri hosts this special audio program. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/03/spring/index.html

T HE C ORTLAND R EVIEW HOME LUCILLE CLIFTON - SPRING 2003 FEATURE Issues and Features 12/06 Sonnet Feature (Aug '06) Issue 33 (Aug '05) Issue 29 (May '05) Issue 28 (Jan '05) Issue 27 (May '04) Issue 26 (Mar '04) Issue 25 (Nov '03) Issue 24 (May '03) Issue 23 (Feb '03) Issue 22 (Aug '02) Issue 21 (May '02) Issue 20 (Feb '02) Issue 19 (Nov '01) Issue 18 (Aug '01) Issue 17 (May '01) Issue 16 (Feb '01) Issue 15 (Nov '00) Issue 14 (Aug '00) Issue 12 (May '00) Issue 11 (Feb '00) Issue 10 (Nov '99) Issue Nine (Aug '99) Issue Eight (May '99) Issue Seven (Feb '99) Issue Six (Nov '98) Issue Five (Aug '98) Issue Four (May '98) Issue Three 04/06 Feature 01/06 Richard Jackson 04/05 Kurt Brown 04/04 Stephen Dobyns 02/04 Robert Fink 04/03 Lucille Clifton 12/02 Denise Duhamel 09/02 Tory Dent 07/02 Sharon Olds 04/02 Billy Collins 12/01 Stanley Kunitz 04/01 Poet and Poem 5 12/00 Kaydi Johnson 10/00 Dodge Festival 06/00 Timothy Steele 04/00 Charles Bernstein 03/00 Stephen Dunn Millennium Feature 10/99 Gibbons Ruark 09/99 David Lehman 07/99 William Heath 06/99 Peter Robinson 1999 RealVideo Poetry 1999 AWP Conference 04/99 Favorite Poems 03/99 DeWayne Rail 01/99 Mark Jarman 1998 Holiday Special 12/98 Mark Doty 10/98 Michael Heller 09/98 John Tranter 07/98 Miriam Levine 06/98 Stellasue Lee 04/98 Robert Creeley 03/98 Robert Pinsky TCR Home F EATURE Lucille Clifton An interview and reading with the Leading Lady of American Poetry, Lucille Clifton. Grace Cavalieri hosts this special audio program.

35. Target Lucille Clifton A poet who has found her calling writing simple, uplifting prose about ordinary people, lucille clifton’s career has in many ways paralleled her writing. http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp;jsessionid=TXEY2XVHN3PULLARAA

36. Forgiving My Father - Lucille Clifton/poetry lucille clifton it is friday. we have come to the paying of the bills. all week you have stood in my dreams like a ghost, asking for more time http://sbacari.tripod.com/poetry/forgivingfather.htm

forgiving my father lucille clifton it is friday. we have come to the paying of the bills. all week you have stood in my dreams like a ghost, asking for more time but today is payday, payday old man; my mother's hand opens in her early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter. there is no more time for you. there will never be time enough daddy daddy old lecher old liar. i wish you were rich so i could take it all and give the lady what she was due but you were the only son of a needy father, the father of a needy son; you gave her all you had which was nothing. you have already given her all you had. you are the pocket that was going to open and come up empty any friday. you were each other's bad bargain, not mine. daddy old pauper old prisoner, old dead man what am i doing here collecting? you lie side by side in debtors' boxes and no accounting will open them up.

37. The Iowa Review: Essay lucille clifton s hips are big hips, and that s worth celebrating. . She explains, the light that came to lucille clifton / came in a shift of knowing, http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/reviews/erica_still.htm

Essay Erica L. Still BODY LANGUAGE Memory also serves this disruptive purpose: "they ask me to remember / but they want me to remember / their memories / and i keep on remembering / mine." Serious humor here also. And again the primacy of the self, the self with its own memories. This poem's title, "why some people be mad at me sometimes," is instructive. Clifton's non-standard English makes rooms for itself just like her hips do - you can't help but notice it, and smile in recognition. At the same time, (in addition to what Guy Davenport calls the memory of another linguistic system) is the awareness of systems of power and authority. Clifton's memories need as much space as her hips do; neither hips nor memory fits neatly into previously ordered social constructions. But not fitting neatly is not the same as being outside of those systems altogether, and Clifton knows that even she sometimes concedes. Indeed, she has already faced that inclination:

38. BOA Titles By Series lucille clifton is the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the largest http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/clifton.html

Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton is the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Her new poetry collection, Voices, BOA books by Lucille Clifton: Quilting Next: New Poems The Terrible Stories Good Woman ... Voices Find out where you can buy our books [ Here Home Site Map Site Credits ... Contact

39. Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureLucille Clifton - Author Page Whether her poetry is exploring the biological changes within her own body or imagining the death of the Sioux chief Crazy Horse, lucille clifton’s world is http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contempora

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Lucille Clifton (b. Thelma Lucille Sayles Clifton was born in Depew, New York, and educated at Fredonia State Teachers College, Fredonia, New York, and at Howard University. Although she began writing at a young age, Clifton devoted her early adult life to raising her family. In the midst of her life with her husband, Fred, and six children under the age of ten, she published her first collection of poetry, Good Times, in 1969. Since that time, she has published eight additional collections of poetry, a memoir, a compilation of her early work, and more than sixteen books for young readers—including the popular Everett Anderson series. Presently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College in Maryland, Clifton has taught at Coppin State College, Goucher College, American University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, among other colleges and universities. Her awards and distinctions include the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize for Poetry; two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for creative writing; a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Two-Headed Woman and a second Pulitzer Prize nomination for both

40. 0-8071-2987-9 Cloth - Wild Blessings: The Poetry Of Lucille Clifton By Hilary Ho Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet lucille clifton has published ten volumes of poems http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=289

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