Thank you, producers, speakers, publisher for this tiny bit of Clifton's life, and congratulations BOA on initiating Blessing The Boats Poetry series. In 1991 I directed a 2-week residential writers conference and I so admired her work! Lucille was my guest writer. Her public reading and conference seminar were of great benefit to the community, to participants - and to me. She read my palm and told me, among other things, that 2 children would be coming. Hmmm, I thought: I was getting on and in the midst of making a commitment to writing my own poetry. I also had just gone full-time at Cornell U where I taught her poems far and wide. Ten years after that summer prophecy, I received word that my manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series! etcetera; 25 years later an encounter at Port Authority brought 2 Tibetan refugees into my home life - my god daughters! - whom my husband and I saw through Ithaca College all the way to graduation. I've not graduated from Lucille Clifton's affirmation of the 6th sense, though, and her trusting me as a reader in the passing along of her husband Fred's notebook. I will always be grateful for those days in the presence of her poems and her soul. Thank you very much for honoring one of the great 20th century US poets in this way.

I am reading "How to Carry Water". I really didn't know Clifton very well prior to this, but now I feel like I am getting to know her better. A remarkable person, and poet.

She was an American heavyweight of poetry, no doubt. Brilliant author.

I love that Lucille Clifton's poems can elicit laughter and tears.

Fascinating.

So excited!

Aracelis Girmay got it right when she describes Lucille Clifton poetry as "fierce looking"! Joanne Gabbin

Thank you for making this documentary! I absolutely love Lucille Clifton! 🙋🏻‍♀️💜🙌🏼📚

I have a question. Can anyone tell me the source for Clifton's quotation, "Every pair of eyes has probably seen something you could not have endured"? Many thanks!

@kiralynae6998

3 жыл бұрын

Judith Harris cites that quote in her book, Signifying Pain. She writes that it's from a conversation Clifton had with clinicians and educators.

here for school 👇

Something about her makes me sad, realizing

@fayebradford5763

2 жыл бұрын

She's no longer here!