October 22, 2018
Clifton, Pain, and Poetry
If you haven’t read Lucille Clifton’s “Wishes for Sons” before, you might assume from the title that it’s a poem about hoping for sons – a mother’s prayerful request for a […]
July 10, 2017
On the Steps of a Midnight Church: for Jasminne Mendez
Dear Jasminne, I’ve been thinking of you since you returned from your trip to the Dominican Republic, and about silence and poetry and the act of writing, and about what […]
September 6, 2013
Why We Chose it: Because Lucille Clifton’s Collected Work is a Big Book
Some books are big in global history, some in national history, and some in personal history. Lucille Clifton’s work is big in all of those categories. That’s why I chose […]