Books By Lucille Clifton - Author

Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at Howard University and the State University of New York at Fredonia. Known for her poetry, she was awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and served as the Maryland Poet Laureate from 1974-1985. A Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland and a professor of English at Duke University, she has authored thirteen collections of poetry, numerous children's books, and her memoir, Generations. Clifton's work has been recognized with the Juniper Prize for Poetry, an Emmy Award, and two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her collection Blessing the Boats: New and Selected, Poems 1988-2000 won the National Book Award and the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, of which she was the first Black female recipient.

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner o