Lucille Clifton’s poem on looks back to a time of hope–before the Kennedy assassination.
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Looking Back to a Time When Hope Waved
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Two Parables Involving Falling Leaves
Scott Bates and Lucille Clifton find poetic lessons in falling leaves.
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Using Lucille Clifton to Defend the Arts
There’s a decline in English majors at elite universities. We use a Lucille Clifton poem to respond.
Keeping the Civil Rights Dream Alive
Great Civil Rights moments are great. Movements are better.
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Poetry in the Commencement Ceremony
Our Commencement was jolted by a reading of Martin Espada’s “Imagine the Angels of Bread.”
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Answer the Door, the Truth Is Knocking
Willa Cather and Lucille Clifton were quoted in our end-of-the-year awards ceremony last week.
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Lessons of a Bird Killed by a Window
Encountering a dead bird outside my window, I recalled a Lucille Clifton poem on the subject that draws a powerful social message.
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It Is Your Own Lush Self You Hunger For
In her Garden of Eden poems, Lucille Clifton sees heaven as a stifling morality that both Eve and Satan are trying to break through. Apples in this drama are symbols of female sensuality.
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Leadership 101: Grade Obama
Andrew Sullivan says that we should not look for a savior in gay rights issues because, in America, “we save ourselves.” The sentiment also appears in a Lucille Clifton poem that appeared following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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