Lucille Clifton
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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York.
She appeared in 1979 to 1985 as Maryland's Poet Laureate.
Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Life and career
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Sayles, Depew, New York) grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. She attended Howard University from 1953 to 1955, then went to study at the State University of New York in Fredonia (near Buffalo).
Lucille Sayles married Fred James Clifton, a philosophy professor at the University of Buffalo, and a sculptor whose carvings depicted African faces in 1958. Lucille and her husband had six children together, and she served as a claims clerk in Buffalo (1958-60), then as a literature assistant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. (1960–71). As he was arranging the Buffalo Community Drama Workshop, writer Ishmael Reed introduced Lucille to Clifton. Fred and Lucille Clifton appeared in the Buffalo Evening News' version of The Glass Menagerie, which was described as "poetic and sensitive."
Reed donated a collection of Clifton's poems to Langston Hughes, who included them in his anthology The Poetry of the Negro in 1966. The Cliftons descended on Baltimore, Maryland, in 1967. Good Times, her first poetry collection, was published in 1969 and named by The New York Times as one of the year's top ten best books of the year. Clifton was poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore from 1971 to 1974. She was Poet Laureate of the state of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. She worked at the Columbia University School of the Arts and George Washington University from 1982 to 1983. Her husband died of cancer in 1984.
Clifton, a literature and creative writing professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1985 to 1989. She served as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She served as a visiting professor at Columbia University from 1995 to 1999. She was a Dartmouth College fellow in 2006. On February 13, 2010, she died in Baltimore on February 13, 2010.
Sidney Clifton, the family's home near Baltimore, in 2019, decided to establish the Clifton House as a place to help young artists and writers by in-person and virtual workshops, lectures, residencies, and a gallery. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Clifton House received preservation assistance through the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.