https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/new-buffalo-sculpture-honors-lucille-clifton-one-of-the-most-important-poets-of-the-20th/article_ab4fb756-11e1-11ee-a5de-7b8e3bad0963.html

#LucilleClifton #Poetry #bookstodon #BlackWomenWriters

I also saw this article yesterday about a new sculpture honoring Lucille Clifton in her hometown of Buffalo, NY. #LucilleClifton

https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/new-buffalo-sculpture-honors-lucille-clifton-one-of-the-most-important-poets-of-the-20th/article_ab4fb756-11e1-11ee-a5de-7b8e3bad0963.html

I just noticed that it is Lucille Clifton's birthday today. I reviewed her memoir GENERATIONS for JSTOR Daily. Her work has been on my mind lately as I'm visiting my hometown, and thinking of my own family's history. #LucilleClifton

https://daily.jstor.org/remembering-her-memories-lucille-cliftons-generations-in-our-time/

some womens days
are spooned out
in the kitchen of their lives

others are erased
forgotten dust
chalkboards in a classroom

I wonder about the dust
collecting on her bag in the dugout
what stories have been forgotten

some daughters days
are ground into the dirt
while stealing home

we didn’t eat dinner
I slept four hours
covered in cat hair

#Poetry #Personal #LucilleClifton

“
this is what I know
my mother went mad
in my fathers house
for want of tenderness

this is what I know
some womens days
are spooned out
in the kitchen of their lives

this is why I know
the gods
are men

“
#LucilleClifton #Poetry #HowToCarryWater

blessing the boats

may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
--Lucille Clifton

#VerseThursday #poetry #TodaysPoem #LucilleClifton @bookstodon

(Art credit: Claude Monet)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackPoets #LucilleClifton #RacistAttacks

This poem is reminiscent of the poem Between the World and Me by Richard Wright in that it describes the scene of a horrific racially motivated attack. This one in Jasper, TX is a real event. If you don't know about it, check the following link:

https://www.insider.com/jasper-texas-20-years-after-james-byrd-jr-was-dragged-to-death-2019-4

“meaning is the river
of voices. meaning
is the patience of the moon.
meaning is the thread
running forever in shadow.”

—excerpt from Lucille Clifton‘s “shadows”

#poem #poems #poetry #LucilleClifton https://mailchi.mp/theparisreview.org/poem-142145?e=897fe6eb1b

it was a dream

in which my greater self
rose up before me
accusing me of my life
with her extra finger
whirling in a gyre of rage
at what my days had come to.
what,
i pleaded with her, could i do,
oh what could i have done?
and she twisted her wild hair
and sparked her wild eyes
and screamed as long as
i could hear her
This. This. This.

Lucille Clifton

#TodaysPoem #SpecialEditionFinal #Poetry #Poem #LucilleClifton

This is one of my favorite poems. It’s today’s fourth and final poem after being offline for a few days due to the ice storm.

it was a dream by Lucille Clifton

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#TodaysPoem #SpecialEdition #Poetry #Poem #LucilleClifton

#FridayReads GENERATIONS: A MEMOIR, by #LucilleClifton Clifton is one of our great truth-tellers, and this work stands among her best. Elegiac and celebratory, unfussy and profound, full of pain and healing and thanks for the ties that hold, this slim memorial contains multitudes, and every word of it is true, “even the lies.”

#Bookstodon #Bookreview #Reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1296486.Generations

@melikhovo @lavelleporter @bookstodon

Thank you for linking to this empathetic article by @lavelleporter about Lucille Clifton, her poetry, her memoir Generations, her poetic strategy as a preserver of memories and forger of resistance and forgiveness. Eye-opening.

#LucilleClifton #poetry #family #BlackHistory #resistance

@mfm_IDdoc

Thank-you for introducing me to Lucille Clifton. She really is incredible and-- I love her.

The Q&A at the end, "I never wanted to be a teacher." But, wow! She was a good educator. So much great poetry. This one feels right to share, as you say, on this first day of #BlackHistoryMonth

why some people be mad at me sometimes

they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering
mine

#LucilleClifton
#PositiveVibes
#Poetry

Thank goodness her poetry is eternal, because I miss this poet like crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVdSYqyk2Y

#LucilleClifton

#TodaysPoem is raw and real.

Let us be a gentle tailwind for those braving opposing forces.

#NewYear #Poetry #LucilleClifton

Lucille Clifton

"i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me"

#LucilleClifton
#NewYear

Milestone birthday coming up, but it will be a quiet and simple celebration even as the world explodes in fireworks about me. #poem #poetry #LucilleClifton

All set for 2023 with #Hindi #translation of my favourite #poem of #LucilleClifton for it reminds me to renew a hopeful regrets-free self 😍

little late for this last post, but i saw someone else share some lucille clifton for #blackfriday and i thought i would share my favorite clifton work. the birth of language

#poetry #lucilleclifton

little late for this last post, but i saw someone else share some lucille clifton for #blackfriday and i thought i would share my favorite clifton work. the birth of language

#poetry #lucilleclifton