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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton was born Thelma Lucille Sayles on June 27, 1936, in Depew, New York, to Samuel and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father worked in a steel mill and her mother was a launderer. Though neither of her parents had

Featured Poem
5/23/67 R.I.P.
The house that is on fire
pieces all across the sky
make the moon look like
a yellow man in a veil
watching the troubled people
running and crying
Oh who gone remember now like
it was,
Langston gone.
Poetry Trivia
Question:
Why did Laura (Riding) Jackson renounce writing poetry in 1938?
Answer
Ostensibly (Riding) Jackson pursued writing a dictionary that sought the original meaning of language, something she had sought in her poetry. Over twenty years later, in 1961, (Riding) Jackson began to address publicly her reasons for renouncing poetry. She wrote of how the aesthetic concerns of poetry interfered with expressing the totality of meaning inherent in language and modern society.
