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Winter term Montgomery Fellow
Lucille Clifton, a poet, historian, children's author, memoirist, and
professor, will hold a public poetry reading and conversation on Tuesday, Jan.
30, at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Clifton is also
participating in the College's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Community
Lunch on Monday, Jan. 15, at noon in Collis Common Ground.
Lucille Clifton
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Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, Clifton has published 11
collections of poems, including Blessing the Boats: New and Selected
Poems, 1988-2000 (2000), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She
is the author of the 1976 memoir, Generations, and of some 20
children's books.
Clifton received an Honorary Doctor
of Letters from Dartmouth in 2005. Her citation read in part, "By
telling the stories about your past-both your own family history and your wider
African and African American heritage-you have helped tell all our stories, and
by chronicling injustices and problems of our current world, you underline our
obligations to each other."
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