February 13th, 2010
Former Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton died at age 73. She was hospitalized last week in Columbia, MD, and passed away Saturday morning at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Clifton published 11 books of poetry and 20 children’s books. She won the National Book Award in 2000 for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1988.
A public memorial is scheduled for April 10 (7:30 pm) at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where Clifton had been a member of the faculty from 1989 until her retirement in 2007.
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