Lucille Clifton

Bio

Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in DePew, New York, and grew up in Buffalo. She was discovered as a poet by Langston Hughes. A prolific and widely respected poet, Lucille Clifton’s work emphasizes endurance and strength through adversity, focusing particularly on African-American experience and family life.

Photo from: Medium - https://medium.com/blacklisted-media/there-is-a-girl-inside-by-lucille-clifton-2c2fa9cce26e

Reading Materials

Poems:

• Being Property Once Myself by Lucille Clifton

• The Earth is a Living Thing by Lucille Clifton

• Untitled by Lucille Clifton