Lucille Clifton

Photo of Lucille Clifton found several places on the web, including the St. Mary’s College of Maryland web site

Poems for consideration

"homage to my hips"

"i am accused of tending to the past"

"How art thou fallen"

Clifton on the Web

poem texts (some may require you to scroll down)

• "adam thinking" site 1 
• "admonitions" site 1
• "climbing" site 1 
• "blessing the boats" site 1 
• "cutting greens" site 1 2 
• "A Dream of Foxes" site 1 
• "fury" site 1
• "good times" site 1
• "harriet" site 1 
• "Homage to My Hips" site 1 
• "i am accused of tending to the past" site 1 
• "Island Mary" site 1 
• "Listen Children" site 1 
• "Lorena" site 1 
• "the lost baby poem" site 1 
• "the lost women" site 1 
• "memory" site 1 2 
• "miss rosie" site 1 2 
• "the mississippi river empties into the gulf" site 1 2 
• "moonchild" site 1 
• "My Mama Moved Among the Days" site 1 
• "the photographs: a lynching" site 1 
• "Poem in praise of menstruation" site 1 
• "Praise Song" site 1 
• "seeker of visions" site 1 
• "shapeshifter poems" site 1
• "She Understands Me" site 1 
• "Sisters" site 1 
• "song at midnight" site 1 
• "telling our stories" site 1 
• "there is a girl inside" site 1
• "the times" site 1 
• "To a Dark Moses" site 1 
• "wishes for sons" site 1 2 
• "won't you celebrate with me" site 1 2 

Audio

"admonitions" site 1 2 

"cruelty" site 1 

"homage to my hips" site 1 

"Lucy" (part 6) site 1 

reading (New York, 1983; 24.30 min.): "sisters," "the lost baby," "after reading Stephen Spender," "homage to my hips," "what the mirror said," "cruelty," "the lost women," "Lucy" (part 6), "my dream about the poet," "my dream about the cows," "my dream about being white," "the thirty-eighth year of my life"

another reading (51.46 min.)  "[in the inner city]," "miss rosie," "good times," "admonitions," "after Kent State," "the lost baby," "[listen children]," "spring song," "sisters," "leanna's poem," "in salem," "to ms. anne," "this morning," "the lesson of the falling leaves," "[lucy, one eye]," "[if mama could see]," "[i went to the valley]," "Lucy" "[light on my mother's tongue]" (part ?), "homage to my hair," "homage to my hips," "lament for Anne Sexton," "for Max," "there is a girl inside," "the thirty-eighth year of my life," "[let there be new flowering in the fields]," "what the mirror said," "[i was born with twelve fingers]," "forgiving my father," "Lucy" (part 6), "[i never knew what to do]," Aunt Agnes Hatcher poems:"[after the war]," "[your daddy, he decided to spread the wealth]," "[me, sometime i be stronger than water]," "[you, slavery time]"; "to merle," "one village"

Video

Atlantic Bones

Interviews

Bookworm KCRW show 17 Oct 1996 (audio), includes "in the inner city," "song at midnight," "won't you celebrate with me," "telling our stories," and "leda 3"

WBFO's Spoken Arts interview 26 January 2006 (audio), includes "[won't you celebrate with me]" and "why some people be mad at me sometimes."

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