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In Memoriam: Lucille Clifton 1936-2010
The Baltimore Sun reports that poet Lucille Clifton died over the weekend at the age of 73. She will be deeply missed.
In addition to being awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize by the Poetry Foundation in 2007, Clifton was a National Book Award winner and was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
You’ll find an interview with Lucille Clifton, many of her poems, plus a podcast, and audio of her reading on the site as well.
Those new to her work may want to start with this article in which her longtime editor Thom Ward introduces six of Clifton’s poems.
Tags: in memoriam, Lilly Prize, Lucille Clifton
Posted in Poetry News, Uncategorized on Monday, February 15th, 2010 by Poetry Foundation.
Comments (3)
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=links for dinner, sorry to see someone go, glad for their sake that epitaphs have sprung up all over. Glad for my sake to read their work. Hope someone reads me after I’m gone – that’s the Beowulf weird and the only way to real fame. Although adulation is OK. In the today.
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Lucille Clifton will be so missed. A writer of and from my time and home area and so close to my heart, but a writer of poems that will last and enrich. Edward Mycue
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