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Lucille Clifton, St. Mary's Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, has taught at our college since 1990. She served as Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland from 1975-1985, and has received many fellowships and awards for her poetry collections and children's books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, and a Lannan Achievement Award in Poetry. Her work has also earned her recognition as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Ms. Clifton has published 10 collections of her poetry, one autobiographical prose work, and 19 children's books. She has been anthologized in well over 100 anthologies of poetry, has appeared on "The Today Show," "Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt," "The Power of the Word with Bill Moyers," and "Nightline with Ted Koppel." Her most recent publication, The Terrible Stories,was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. In May of 1998, Slow Dancer Press Published The Terrible Storiesin England, and in December of that year the Lila Wallace Foundation announced its recognition of Ms. Clifton's work by granting her a 1999 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. Ms. Clifton serves on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her newest book, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems,came out from BOA in April of 2000. |