Lucille
Clifton is the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Her new poetry collection, Voices, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September 2008. She is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of
children's books. Her most recent poetry book, Blessing
the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999, won the 2000
National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry
collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980,
and, Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the
Pulitzer Prize in 1988, the only author ever to have done so,
while Clifton's, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist
for the 1996 National Book Award. Clifton has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Emmy Award from the
American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Shelley
Memorial Prize and the Charity Randall Citation. She is
a Distinguished Professor of Humanitites at St. Mary's College
in Maryland. She was appointed a Fellow of The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected as Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 1999.
BOA books by Lucille Clifton:
Quilting
Next: New Poems
The Terrible Stories
Good Woman
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Mercy
Voices
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