Quote of the day
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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)