Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Lucille Clifton
Born: June 27, 1936
Died: February 13, 2010 (aged 73)
Bio: Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Known for:
- Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir, 1969-1980 (1987)
- Next: New Poems (1987)
- Everett Anderson's nine month long (1971)
- The terrible stories (1996)