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  <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[She was the first person in her family to finish high school and attend college. She started Howard University on scholarship as a drama major but lost the scholarship two years later.

Thus began her writing career.

&quot;Good Times&quot;, her first book of poems, was published in 1969. She has since been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and has been honored as Maryland's Poet Laureate. 

Ms. Clifton's foray into writing for children began with &quot;Some of the Days of Everett Anderson&quot;, published in 1970.

In 1976, &quot;Generations: A Memoir&quot; was published. In 2000, she won the National Book Award for Poetry, for her work &quot;Poems Seven&quot;.

Ms. Clifton is currently Professor of Humanities, at St. Mary's College, Maryland.]]></about>      <hometown>Depew (NY)</hometown>  <born_at>06/27/1936</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-20]]></title>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Light]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Quilting: Poems 1987-1990]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[the terrible stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mercy]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Oranges &amp; Sardines: Issue 3, Winter 2008]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Galway Kinnell]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[I.M. Bess]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Meghan Punschke]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[David Krump]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Grace Cavalieri]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Rose]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kirk Curnutt]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary Morris]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[April Carter Grant]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Next: New Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Voices]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Everett Anderson's Goodbye]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lucille Clifton]]></name>
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