Lucille
Clifton (1936-2010) was the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, as well as the 2010 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Her final poetry collection, Voices, was published by BOA in September 2008. She was an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of
children's books. Her poetry book, Blessing
the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, won the 2000
National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry
collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980,
and, Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the
Pulitzer Prize in 1988, the only author ever to have done so,
while Clifton's, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist
for the 1996 National Book Award. Clifton received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts; an Emmy Award from the
American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; the Shelley
Memorial Prize; and the Charity Randall Citation. She served as
a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College
in Maryland. She was appointed a Fellow of The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected as Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 1999.
Videos of Lucille Clifton:
Reading of "what haunts him" and "sorrows" from Voices.
Reading of "aunt jemima" and "afterblues" from Voices.
Reading at Georgia Tech: part I, part II, part III.
Press Materials for Lucille Clifton
Download Author Photo [Here]
Download Voices Book Cover [Here]
Download Voices Press Release [Here]
BOA books by Lucille Clifton:
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Good Woman
Mercy
Next: New Poems
Quilting
The Terrible Stories
Voices
