This is becoming a sad series of posts. This morning I read that poet Lucille Clifton had died. Clifton won a National Book Award in 2000, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, to name just a few of the honors she earned in her lifetime.
She wrote children's books as well as 11 poetry collections, many of which celebrate her African-American heritage and feminism. National Poetry Month isn't until April--but there's always time to read a poem, and the library's extensive poetry collection will surely have something that fits your taste. You'll find American poets at 811, and British poets at 821. Check the catalog or ask at the reference desk for poets from other countries.
And now I think maybe I should stop reading the newspaper, before this becomes the dead authors blog.
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