Here was this small poem, also a mythology—of love, acceptance.”

Here is Mendi Lewis Obadike on what she learned from Ms. Lucille who was her teacher: “That being a writer has to do with being a part of a community, learning to touch another.

“And poetry is a way of wondering that involves other people.”

Here is Ama Codjoe: “Clifton made space for my body in poetry/in the world. My black body. My hips. My histories. My contradictions. My desires. And there are so many mysteries in her writing too. […] There’s more to say but for that I’d want sun spilling through a window, her books around me like a skirt, and you and me with cups and cups of tea.”

About the Author

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936–February 13, 2010) was an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988–2000 (BOA, 2000) won the National Book Award for Poetry. In 1988 she became the only author to have two collections selected in the same year as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA, 1987) and Next: New Poems (BOA, 1987). In 1996, her collection The Terrible Stories (BOA, 1996) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Among her many other awards and accolades are the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Frost Medal, and an Emmy Award. In 2013, her posthumously published collection The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010, edited by Kevin Young and Michael Glaser (BOA, 2012), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

About the Editor

Aracelis Girmay (December 10, 1977) is the author of three books of poems: the black maria (BOA, 2016); Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007), winner of a GLCA New Writers Award; and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is also the author/illustrator of the collage-based picture book changing, changing and with her sister collaborated on the forthcoming children’s book What Do You Know? (Enchanted Lion, 2021). For her work, Girmay was nominated for a Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018 and in 2015 received the Whiting Award for Poetry. In 2018 she was also selected by Elizabeth Alexander to receive the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Girmay is the mother of two and is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund.

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No. 1

The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress

W. D. Snodgrass

No. 2

She

M. L. Rosenthal

No. 3

Living With Distance

Ralph J. Mills, Jr.

No. 4

Not Just Any Death

Michael Waters

No. 5

That Was Then: New and Selected Poems

Isabella Gardner

No. 6

Things That Happen Where There Aren’t Any People

William Stafford

No. 7

The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974–1980

John Logan

No. 8

Signatures

Joseph Stroud

No. 9

People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949–1983

Louis Simpson

No. 10

Yin

Carolyn Kizer

No. 11

Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada

Bill Tremblay

No. 12

Seeing It Was So

Anthony Piccione

No. 13

Hyam Plutzik: The Collected Poems

No. 14

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969–1980

Lucille Clifton

No. 15

Next: New Poems

Lucille Clifton

No. 16

Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family

William B. Patrick

No. 17

John Logan: The Collected Poems

No. 18

Isabella Gardner: The Collected Poems

No. 19

The Sunken Lightship

Peter Makuck

No. 20

The City in Which I Love You

Li-Young Lee

No. 21

Quilting: Poems 1987–1990

Lucille Clifton

No. 22

John Logan: The Collected Fiction

No. 23

Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays

Delmore Schwartz

No. 24

Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard

Gerald Costanzo

No. 25

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems

Barton Sutter

No. 26

Each in His Season

W. D. Snodgrass

No. 27

Wordworks: Poems Selected and New

Richard Kostelanetz

No. 28

What

We Carry Dorianne Laux

No. 29

Red Suitcase

Naomi Shihab Nye

No. 30

Song

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

No. 31

The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle

W. D. Snodgrass

No. 32

For the Kingdom

Anthony Piccione

No. 33

The Quicken Tree

Bill Knott

No. 34

These Upraised Hands

William B. Patrick

No. 35

Crazy Horse in Stillness

William Heyen

No. 36

Quick, Now, Always

Mark Irwin

No. 37

I Have Tasted the Apple

Mary Crow

No. 38

The Terrible Stories

Lucille Clifton

No. 39

The Heat of Arrivals

Ray Gonzalez

No. 40

Jimmy & Rita

Kim Addonizio

No. 41

Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum

Michael Waters

No. 42

Against Distance

Peter Makuck

No. 43

The Night Path

Laurie Kutchins

No. 44

Radiography

Bruce Bond

No. 45

At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties

David Ignatow

No. 46

Trillium

Richard Foerster

No. 47

Fuel

Naomi Shihab Nye

No. 48

Gratitude

Sam Hamill

No. 49

Diana, Charles, & the Queen

William Heyen

No. 50

Plus Shipping

Bob Hicok

No. 51

Cabato Sentora

Ray Gonzalez

No. 52

We Didn’t Come Here for This

William B. Patrick

No. 53

The Vandals

Alan Michael Parker

No. 54

To Get Here

Wendy Mnookin

No. 55

Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems

David Ignatow

No. 56

Dusty Angel

Michael Blumenthal

No. 57

The Tiger Iris

Joan Swift

No. 58

White City

Mark Irwin

No. 59

Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999

Bill Knott

No. 60

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems: 1988–2000

Lucille Clifton

No. 61

Tell Me

Kim Addonizio

No. 62

Smoke

Dorianne Laux

No. 63

Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems

Michael Waters

No. 64

Rancho Notorious

Richard Garcia

No. 65

Jam

Joe-Anne McLaughlin

No. 66

A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems

Edited, with an Introduction by Michael Waters

No. 67

Small Gods of Grief

Laure-Anne Bosselaar

No. 68

Book of My Nights

Li-Young Lee

No. 69

Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies

Charles Harper Webb

No. 70

Double Going

Richard Foerster

No. 71

What He Took

Wendy Mnookin

No. 72

The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande

Ray Gonzalez

No. 73

Mules of Love

Ellen Bass

No. 74

The Guests at the Gate

Anthony Piccione

No. 75

Dumb Luck

Sam Hamill

No. 76

Love Song with Motor Vehicles

Alan Michael Parker

No. 77

Life Watch

Willis Barnstone

No. 78

The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940–2001

Louis Simpson

No. 79

Is

Wayne Dodd

No. 80

Late

Cecilia Woloch

No. 81

Precipitates

Debra Kang Dean

No. 82

The Orchard

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

No. 83

Bright Hunger

Mark

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