Prizes won by Lucille Clifton
-Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award
-The Terrible Stories was nominated for the National Book Award
-The Book of Light / Quilting Poems / Next: New Poems / Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
-Two- Headed Woman was also a Pulitzer Prize nominee / recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize
-Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
-Lannan Literary Award
-Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
-Shelley Memorial Award
-YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award
-2007 Ruth Lilly Prize
Remembering Clifton's Poetry
-According to NPR, Clifton cared deeply for American History and her own history, and it showed through her poetry.
-Clifton has been known to be a brave poet, in writing simple poems that have a meaning much larger than its size.
-Clifton wrote on topics that people kept quiet; she brought them to life.
-Clifton told NPR, 'With my poetry, I hope to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
-After Clifton spoke with NPR many people turned to her poetry because it helps with their feelings.
-When Clifton wrote she pushed that telling the truth in poetry was good and needed to be done. Now when poets write there is always truth in what they say with room for mystery and twists in the story.
-In her poetry she encouraged others to celebrate survival and talk about it.
-Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award
-The Terrible Stories was nominated for the National Book Award
-The Book of Light / Quilting Poems / Next: New Poems / Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
-Two- Headed Woman was also a Pulitzer Prize nominee / recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize
-Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
-Lannan Literary Award
-Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
-Shelley Memorial Award
-YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award
-2007 Ruth Lilly Prize
Remembering Clifton's Poetry
-According to NPR, Clifton cared deeply for American History and her own history, and it showed through her poetry.
-Clifton has been known to be a brave poet, in writing simple poems that have a meaning much larger than its size.
-Clifton wrote on topics that people kept quiet; she brought them to life.
-Clifton told NPR, 'With my poetry, I hope to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
-After Clifton spoke with NPR many people turned to her poetry because it helps with their feelings.
-When Clifton wrote she pushed that telling the truth in poetry was good and needed to be done. Now when poets write there is always truth in what they say with room for mystery and twists in the story.
-In her poetry she encouraged others to celebrate survival and talk about it.