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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) was an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. She was Maryland Poet Laureate and she won National Book Award for her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000.