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Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, on June 27, 1936....
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about the Body
		A Hand by Jane Hirshfield

		After tagging the dust your body is made of by Jen Tynes

		Anatomy by Monica Ferrell

		Bodyweight by Matthew Schwartz

		Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams

		For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours by John Hodgen

		Ghost in the Land of Skeletons by Christopher Kennedy

		Guessing My Death [excerpt] by CAConrad

		Human Atlas by Marianne Boruch

		I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

		In the Surgical Theatre by Dana Levin

		Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket by Monica Youn

		Slight Tremor by Linda Gregerson

		Textbook & Absence (Anatomy) by Catherine Barnett

		The Tongue by Chris Martin

		These Hands, If Not Gods by Natalie Diaz

		Poems Teens Like
		Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg

		A Muse by Reginald Shepherd

		Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child by Darcy Cummings

		Ave Maria by Frank O'Hara

		Ballad by Sonia Sanchez

		Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point by Stephen Dunn

		Cicada by John Blair

		Coach Losing His Daughter by Jack Ridl

		Dangerous for Girls by Connie Voisine

		Deer Hit by Jon Loomis

		Eating Poetry by Mark Strand

		Falling by James Dickey

		Ground Swell by Mark Jarman

		Hyper- by David Baker

		In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte

		Lady Tactics by Anne Waldman

		Mairsy and Dosey by Sharon Olds

		Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Mermaid Song by Kim Addonizio

		Notes from the Other Side by Jane Kenyon

		Patience by Kay Ryan

		Possum Crossing by Nikki Giovanni

		Sticks by Thomas Sayers Ellis

		Thanks by W. S. Merwin

		That Sure is My Little Dog by Eleanor Lerman

		The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

		The Fist by Derek Walcott

		The New Higher by John Ashbery

		The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland

		The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

		The Young Man's Song by W. B. Yeats

		White Apples by Donald Hall

		Workshop by Billy Collins


		Black History
		A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		A Song for Many Movements by Audre Lorde

		American History by Michael S. Harper

		Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa

		Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson

		Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes

		Dreams by Langston Hughes

		For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young

		Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Haircut by Elizabeth Alexander

		Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield

		I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady

		La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Redmon Fauset

		Langston Blue by Jericho Brown

		Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson

		Quatrains by Gwendolyn Bennett

		Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove

		Song of the Son by Jean Toomer

		Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

		The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

		The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

		The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude by Rita Dove

		The White House by Claude McKay

		We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

		We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar


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May 03, 1983 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive

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