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Tag: Lucille Clifton

What you read in 2022

Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More

Being a Writer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ian McMillan, James Schuyler, Lucille Clifton, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson, Simon Armitage, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Writing

Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by Lucille Clifton

So this is a bit spooky. All week I had in mind these marvellous final words from Lucille Clifton’s poem … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Frank O'Hara, French stationery, Josephine Corcoran, Life Lessons, Lucille Clifton, McFadden & Whitehead, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Queer Eye, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, Stina Nordenstam, Writing

Advent poems

During December 2019 I blogged a series of poems to celebrate the season of Advent. Some of these were about … More

Advent, Advent Poems, Advent Poetry, Joseph Ceravolo, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska

Places of hope

Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy them … More

Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Josephine Corcoran, Justin Wise, Lucille Clifton, Natalie Jabbar, Octavio Paz, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Samuel Barber, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke, Yehuda Amichai

Advent poems 16: the prophet, by Lucille Clifton

the prophet came to me with a poor man’s tale of his one ewe lamb sworn to him by seven … More

Advent, Advent Poems, Christmas Poems, Lucille Clifton, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The Terrible Stories

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