CLIFTON, LUCILLE,
1936-2010.
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Subseries 7.1
Printed material by Lucille Clifton,
1956-2005
Boxes 62-63; OP 3 and OP 5
Scope and Content Note
Printed material by Clifton includes her book reviews, children's literature, essays, interviews, poems, and short stories. Book reviews of note include Clifton's review of fellow artist and friend, Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Of her printed children's stories, many are published in elementary workbooks and teacher journals, as examples of how to successfully broach issues of race and diversity in the classroom. Her poems, printed on flyers, and in journals and programs, are divided chronologically from 1956 to 2005. Finally, Clifton's interviews and short stories appear in a range of newspapers and magazines, from well-known magazines like House and Garden to collegiate publications like Washington College Magazine.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by record type, then in chronological order.
| Book reviews, 1977-1988 | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | 1 | "If I Don't Know My Last Name, What is the Meaning of My First?," Ms., February 1977 [review of Roots: The Saga of an American Family] |
| 62 | 1 | "'The Color Purple' tells its story in letters," The Sun, July 18, 1982 |
| 62 | 1 | "Children of Long Ago," The New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1988 |
| Children's literature, 1971-1982 | ||
| 62 | 2 | "Goodnight," Teacher's Read-Aloud Anthology, Level 9, 1971 |
| 62 | 2 | "The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring," Ms., August 1973 [photocopy, in the "Stories for Free Children" series] |
| 62 | 2 | "Everett Anderson's Friend," Language, 1980 |
| 62 | 2 | "The Lucky Stone," The Reading Connection, 1982 |
| Children's literature, 1989-1991 | ||
| 62 | 3 | "13A Poem," Springboards 2, 1989 |
| 62 | 3 | "Listen Children," Scholastic Scope, February 17, 1989 |
| 62 | 3 | "The Magic Star and the Flying Girl," booklet by LucilleClifton and the Children in K-3 in Buffalo, New York, June 3, 1991 |
| Essays, 1972-1990 | ||
| 62 | 4 | "A Little Bit About a Lot of Black Folks," The New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1972 [jointly authored with Fred Clifton] |
| 62 | 4 | "We Know this Place," Essence, July 1976 [photocopy] |
| 62 | 4 | "We Are the Grapevine," Essence, May 1985 |
| 62 | 4 | "A Letter to Fred," Essence, November 1989 |
| 62 | 4 | "We Are the Grapevine, Kokayi, Winter 1989 |
| 62 | 4 | "Graceful Passages," Essence, May 1990 [written with other women writers in celebration of how far they have come in the last twenty years] |
| Interviews, 1981-2005 | ||
| 62 | 5 | "LucilleClifton: 9'Her Poetry Puts Her Life on Paper'," Barbara J. Selmo and Denise D'Agostino, The Trinity Tripod, March 10, 1981 [includes correspondence] |
| OP3 | 11 | "Warmwisewoman: LucilleClifton reads at Washington College," Andrea Kehoe, The Collegian, April 1989 |
| 62 | 5 | "Writer LucilleClifton: a 'Warmwisewoman,'" Andrea Kehoe, Washington College Magazine, Summer 1989 |
| OP3 | 12 | "'a good woman': an interview with poet LucilleClifton," Lisa Monroe, Plume Literary Supplement, 1989-1990 [includes interviewer correspondence] |
| 62 | 5 | "Poetic Voice: A Talk with LucilleClifton," Pamela Woodruff, Jambalaya, Winter 1993/94 [includes interviewer correspondence] |
| 62 | 5 | "An Interview with LucilleClifton," in "LucilleClifton, Poet: Special Selection,"Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo, 1999 [includes the poems "A Meditation, "Searching for the Ox," "Seeing the Traces," "Seeing the Ox," "Catching the Ox," "Herding the Ox," "Coming Home on the Ox's Back," "The Ox Forgotten, Leaving the Man Alone," "The Ox and the Man Both Gone Out of Sight," "Returning to the Origin, Back to the Source," "Entering the City With Bliss-Bestowing Hands," "End of Meditation," "Alabama 9/15/63," "Photograph: The Lynching," "Signs," "Study the Masters," and "The Times] |
| 62 | 5 | "No Ordinary Woman: An Interview with LucilleClifton," Hilary Holladay, Poetry in America, April 1999 [includes the poems "i am accused of tending to the past," "light," and "hag riding"] |
| 62 | 5 | "LucilleClifton and Sonia Sanchez: A Conversation," Elisa Davis, Callaloo, 2002 [includes poems "Here," "stop," "The Baby," "Powell," "In 1844 explorers John Freemont and Kit Carson discovered Lake Tahoe," "Tuesday nine eleven '01," "Wednesday nine twelve '01," "Thursday nine thirteen," "Friday nine fourteen," " Saturday nine fifteen," "Sunday morning nine sixteen," and "Monday sundown nine seventeen"] |
| 62 | 5 | "LucilleClifton," Sarah Ingber, The Horn Gallery Magazine, Fall 2003 |
| 62 | 5 | "LucilleClifton," Catherine Young, Buffalo Spree, September 2004 [photocopy from publisher] |
| 62 | 5 | "Lucille Clifton's Other Life: Children's Author," River Gazette, December-January 2005 |
| Poems, undated, and 1956-1969 | ||
| 62 | 6 | "let there be new flowing," Poetry in Motion, undated |
| 62 | 6 | "LucilleClifton: Tree of Life," unknown publication, undated [photocopy of original, includes poems "Oh where have you fallen," "Remembering the Birth of Lucifer," "Whispered to Lucifer," "Eve's Version," "Lucifer Understanding at Last," "The Garden of Delight," "Adam Thinking," "Eve Thinking," "The Story Thus Far," and "Lucifer Speaks in his Own Voice"] |
| 62 | 6 | "still there is mercy, there is grace," The Art of Survival or...Life After Saint Ben's, undated |
| 62 | 6 | "won't you celebrate with me," Program for The Loft: A Place for Writings and Literature, undated |
| 62 | 6 | "Would I might climb across the," in "Poets in Our Midst," Hilltop, circa 1950s |
| 62 | 6 | "Scarlet Room," and "Crucifixion," Asterisk, May 15, 1956 |
| OP3 | 13 | "for De Lawd," Program for Spring Poetry Festival, University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Council, March 10-13, 1969 |
| 62 | 6 | "Miss Rosie," informational flyer for Discovery '69, April 28, 1969 |
| 62 | 6 | "Good Times" [includes: "In the Inner City," "My Mama Moved Among the Days," "Miss Rosie," "The Ist," "Good Times," "Those Boys that Ran Together," "The Meeting After the Savior Gone 4/4/68," "For De Lawd," "If I Stand in my Window," "Ca'line's Prayer," "Tyrone 2," Tyrone 3," "Now My First Wife," "The Way it Was," "Pork Chops," and "Admonitions"], The Massachusetts Review, Winter 1969. |
| OP3 | 14 | "Moon walkers," in The New York Times Magazine, December 21, 1969 |
| Poems, 1972-1977 | ||
| 62 | 7 | "Lately," Mademoiselle, April, 1972 |
| 62 | 7 | "God Send Easter," in booklet entitled Out of Sight, February 1974 |
| 62 | 7 | "All of Us are All of Us," Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known, March 1974 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 62 | 7 | "Spring Song," in flyer for Poetry on the Parkway, August 17, 1976 |
| 62 | 7 | "the thirty-eighth year," and "Salt" in "An Ordinary Woman: Poems by LucilleClifton," AAUW Journal, October 1976 |
| 62 | 7 | "Easter Sunday," in flyer for "Willie Birch Easter Sunday Series: An Exhibition of Paintings," September 4-October 1, 1977 |
| 62 | 7 | "There is a Girl Inside," American Poetry Review, 1977 |
| Poems, 1982-1987 | ||
| 62 | 8 | "My Dream About You God," the G.W. Review, 1982 |
| 62 | 8 | "My Friends," Elan, May/June 1982 |
| 62 | 8 | "On the Occasion of Maryland's 350th Birthday," Maryland Heritage News, Winter 1984 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 62 | 8 | "winnie song," Baltimore City Paper, October 25-31, 1985 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 62 | 8 | "Roots," flyer for Poetry Today Series, California Institute of the Arts Division of Critical Studies, April 23, 1986 |
| OP3 | 15 | "In the Inner City," poster, 1987 |
| 62 | 8 | "california lessons," Maryland Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1987 |
| Poems, 1988-1989 | ||
| 63 | 1 | "LucilleClifton: fifteen poems" [includes "shapeshifter poems," "at Gettysburg," "at nagasaki," "at Jonestown," "the lost women," "[here is another]," "crazy horse names his daughter," "the message of crazy horse," "[cruelty. don't talk]," "my dream about the poet," "[what spells raccoon]," "sorrow song," "if our grandchild be a girl," "the death of Thelma sayles," and "[this belief]"], The American Poetry Review, September/October, 1987 |
| 63 | 1 | "Presenting LucilleClifton," Poetvision, 1988 [companion volume to Poetvision video] |
| 63 | 1 | "the boy white," in booklet entitled "Photos in Translation: Sixteen Poems by Lucille Clifton's Poetry Workshop," February 1988 |
| 63 | 1 | "breaklight," flyer for LucilleClifton Poetry Reading, Colorado State University, February 26, 1988 |
| 63 | 1 | "4 daughters" and "the death of fred clifton," Essence, September 1988 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 63 | 1 | "from the wisdom of sister brown," After V, Winter 1988 |
| 63 | 1 | "she.," booklet entitled Beast: Inspirations from a sculpture by Homer Lee Elliott, 1989 |
| 63 | 1 | "if our grandchild be a girl," Essence, February 1989 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| OP3 | 16 | "the thirty eighth year," Poetry and Literature, November 30, 1989 |
| 63 | 1 | "poem in praise of menstruation," flyer for Poetry Series, Georgetown University and The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1989-1990 |
| Poems, 1990-1994 | ||
| 63 | 2 | "Five Poems by LucilleClifton" [includes "the poet," "my poem," "Africa," "speaking of loss," and "homage to my hips], Townson Times, May 2, 1990 |
| 63 | 2 | "The Killing of Trees," the G.W. Review, 1990 |
| 63 | 2 | "Here Yet Be Dragons," program for LucilleClifton: Readings in Contemporary Poetry, Dia Center for the Arts, March 5, 1991 |
| 63 | 2 | "if our grandchild be a girl," [variant title: "i wish for her"], Family Stories, August 1991 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 2 | "it was a dream," "daughters," and "climbing" in "Three Poems," Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Winter 1992-93 | |
| OP5 | - | "atlas," Streetfare Journal, Volume 7, Number 5, 1993 [sponsored by Transportation Displays Inc.] |
| 63 | 2 | "to my friend, jerina," The Healing Woman, April 1993 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 63 | 2 | "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989," Studio One, Spring 1994 |
| 63 | 2 | "the mississippi river empties into the gulf," Diotima, Summer 1994 |
| Poems, 1994-1998 | ||
| 63 | 3 | "what the mirror said," Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equality and Justice, July 1994 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 63 | 3 | "june 20" and "daughters," Potamic Review, Winter 1996 |
| 63 | 3 | "the gift," Tempus, Spring 1998 |
| 63 | 3 | "this key, this heart," April 1998 [photocopied from Phi beta Kappa program; includes correspondence] |
| 63 | 3 | "what comes after this," The Independent, May 4, 1998 |
| Poems, 1998-2002 | ||
| 63 | 4 | "'Some of the Bone has Gone Missing'," American Poet, Summer 1998 [includes editorial correspondence] |
| 63 | 4 | "birthday 1999," and "Praise Song," flyer for Readings and Conversations with LucilleClifton and Denise Chavez, December 8, 1999 |
| 63 | 4 | "Listen Children," Present Time, January 2000 [includes correspondence] |
| 63 | 4 | "milo," Squaw Valley Community of Writers Omnium Gatherum and Newsletter, 2000-2001 |
| 63 | 4 | "it is hard to remain human on a day," excerpt from "The Times," The Sun, March 25, 2001 |
| 63 | 4 | "Here Rests," The New Yorker, July 16, 2001 |
| 63 | 4 | "wishes for sons," Ms., Summer 2002 |
| 63 | 4 | "Telling Our Stories," flyer for The Spoken Word Series, Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College, October 28, 2002 |
| Poems, 2003-2005 | ||
| 63 | 5 | "female," For My Health: Project Wish, 2003 [yearly personal journal] |
| 63 | 5 | "stones and bones," The North American Review, March-April 2003 |
| 63 | 5 | "blood" and "mercy," Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2003 |
| 63 | 5 | "after oz," Callaloo, 2004 |
| 63 | 5 | "surely I am able to write poems," broadside published for the Kent State Wick Poetry Program, March 12-14, 2004 [includes Clifton's autograph] |
| 63 | 5 | "quilting," pamphlet entitled Strengthening the Process of Informed Consent to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care and Research, June 28-29, 2004 |
| 63 | 5 | "The line," Baltimore, September 2005 |
| Short stories, 1969-1971 | ||
| 63 | 6 | "The Magic Mama," Redbook, November 1969 [includes correspondence] |
| 63 | 6 | "Christmas is something else," House and Garden, December 1969 |
| 63 | 6 | "The End of Love is Death and The End of Death is Love," Atlantic, March 1971 |
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