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Lucille Clifton reads in the
First Annual Maude Meehan Memorial Reading
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See the announcement
of the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize on the Poetry Foundation website with links to eight poems by Lucille Clifton.
Watch a video
of Lucille Clifton reading “won’t you celebrate with me” on the PBS website.
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This reading is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
This event is co-sponsored by
the UCSC Division of Humanities and the Living Writers Reading Series of the UCSC Creative Writing Program.
Free parking for this event is funded by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
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Lucille Clifton is the author of thirteen collections of poetry,
a memoir and nineteen books for children. Her newest book, Voices, was released by BOA Editions in 2008.
She is the winner of many awards and honors: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000)
won the National Book Award; The Terrible Stories (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award;
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (1987) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Two-Headed Woman (1980),
also a Pulitzer Prize nominee, was the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize;
she has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships; she received the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
for a lifetime of achievement in poetry. She has served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland,
been appointed a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was elected
a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. From 1985 to 1989 she was a professor of Literature
and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 1991, she has been
Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College in Maryland.
