BOA Editions. 89 pages. $12 paper. Lucille Clifton’s seventh book of poems is perhaps the strongest evocation to date of one of America’s most consistent and powerful poetic voices.

“Won’t you celebrate with me,” opens a Lucille Clifton poem of the same name, “what I have shaped into/a kind of life?“ Clifton, a writer born in Depew and raised on Buffalo’s East ...

On Thursday, Feb. 22, Kevin Quashie, professor of English at Brown University delivered a colloquium titled “Thinking Lucille Clifton Thinking” at the University of Massachusetts. Lucille Clifton was ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Lucille Clifton is a Chair for Poetry Panel in the National Book Foundation with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum.

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Columbia is naming three new Downtown Columbia streets inspired by the poetry of Lucille Clifton. Lucille Clifton, a 2000 National Book Awards finalist for her poetry “Blessing the Boats ...