[New-Poetry] Payday for Clifton

[TheOldMole]

Good for her.

David Graham wrote:
> Lucille Clifton has won the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, with its modest 
> $100K stipend.
>
> http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.clifton07may07,0,3656579.story?coll=bal-artslife-today
>
> A most deserving winner, I say.  
>
> *the photograph: a lynching*
>  
>  
> is it the cut glass
> of their eyes
> looking up toward
> the new gnarled branch
> of the black man
> hanging from a tree?
>  
> is it the white milk pleated
> collar of the woman
> smiling toward the camera,
> her fingers loose around
> a christian cross drooping
> against her breast?
>  
> is it all of us
> captured by history into an
> accurate album? will we be
> required to view it together
> under a gathering sky?
> * *
> Lucille Clifton.  /Blessing The Boats://  //New & Selected Poems, 
> 1988-2000./
>
>
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