Quote of the day
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
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)