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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton is the author of ten books of
poetry and seventeen books for children. Her honors
include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences, two fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley
Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation, and a
Lannan Literary Award. In 1996, she was a National
Book Award finalist for The Terrible Stories,
and she was the only poet to have two books—Next:
New Poems and Good
Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 chosen as finalists for the
Pulitzer Prize in the same year. Appointed a
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999
and elected a Fellow in literature of the Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Clifton currently resides in
Columbia, Maryland, where she is a Distinguished
Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College.
The Poet and The Poem - Lucille
Clifton
Lucille Clifton
Grace Cavalieri interviews the leading lady of poetry, Lucille
Clifton, on The Poet and The Poem. This program is available
in streaming audio:
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listen to the program.
Grace Cavalieri is a poet and a playwright. She has
authored 11 books of poetry and 18 produced plays.
Her latest book of poems is Cuffed Frays and
Other Poems(Argonne House Press, 2001) Her
newest play, "Quilting the Sun" was
presented by the Smithsonian Institution in March,
2003.
She has produced The Poet and The Poem on public
radio since 1977. It is now recorded at the Library
of Congress for broadcast via NPR satellite.
Lucille Clifton is the author of ten books of
poetry and seventeen books for children. Her honors
include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences, two fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley
Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation, and a
Lannan Literary Award. In 1996, she was a National
Book Award finalist for
Grace Cavalieri is a poet and a playwright. She has
authored 11 books of poetry and 18 produced plays.
Her latest book of poems is