1994 (i was leaving my fifty-eighth year) | 1996 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179618 |
A Dream of Foxes (who can blame her for hunkering) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc4
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33105&poet=6838&num=1&total=34 |
Adam Thinking (she stolen from my bone) | | Poem | http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33100&poet=6838&num=2&total=34 |
Admonitions (boys i dont promise you nothing) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#admonitions
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton6.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33118&poet=6838&num=3&total=34 |
All Us Come Cross the Water (children) | 1973 | Book | |
Amifika (children) | 1977 | Book | |
An Ordinary Woman (poems) | 1974 | Collection | |
Blessing the Boats (may the tide) | 1991 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16489 |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 | 2000 | Collection | |
Brothers (come coil with me) | 1993 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182148 |
Climbing (a woman precedes me up the long rope) | 1993 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#clift1
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/5982
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/6018/
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton2.html
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/lucille_clifton/climbing
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33111&poet=6838&num=4&total=34 |
Cutting Greens (curling them around) | 1974 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton17.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17123
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15598
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33096&poet=6838&num=5&total=34 |
Dear Creator: A Week of Poems for Young People and Their Teachers | 1997 | Collection | |
Dont You Remember | 1973 | | |
El Nino Que No Creia en la Primavera | 1996 | | |
Everett Andersons 1-2-3 (children) | 1992 | Book | |
Everett Andersons Christmas Coming (children) | 1991 | Book | |
Everett Andersons Friend (children) | 1992 | Book | |
Everett Andersons Goodbye (children) | 1983 | Book | |
Everett Andersons Nine Month Long (children) | 1978 | Book | |
Everett Andersons Year (children) | 1974 | Book | |
Far Memory (my knees recall the pockets) | 1993 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176014 |
Four Notes to Clark Kent (if I should enter the house and speak) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc3 |
Fury - for Mama (remember this) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc8
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/9024
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/9030/
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton5.html
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/lucille_clifton/fury
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33110&poet=6838&num=6&total=34 |
Generations: A Memoir | 1976 | Book | |
Good News about the Earth (poems) | 1972 | Collection | |
Good Times (my daddy has paid the rent) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#good%20times
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/8114
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/8119/
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton3.html
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/lucille_clifton/good_times
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33119&poet=6838&num=7&total=34 |
Good Times (poems) | 1969 | Collection | |
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 | 1987 | Collection | |
Good, Says Jerome | 1973 | | |
Harriet | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#harriet
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17125
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33115&poet=6838&num=8&total=34 |
Here Rests (my sister Josephine) | 2004 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179620 |
Homage to My Hips (these hips are big hips) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179615
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton11.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17126
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33097&poet=6838&num=9&total=34 |
I Am Accused of Tending to the Past | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#tending%20past
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17127
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33113&poet=6838&num=10&total=34 |
If Mama Could See | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175743 |
Island Mary (after the all been done and i) | | Poem | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17128
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33124&poet=6838&num=11&total=34 |
It Was a Dream (in which my greater self) | 1992 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21310 |
Jasper Texas 1998 (i am a mans head hunched in the road) | 2000 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179619 |
Listen Children | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#listen%20children
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17129
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton4.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33116&poet=6838&num=12&total=34 |
Lorena (it lay in my palm soft and trembled) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc0
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17130
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33103&poet=6838&num=13&total=34 |
Memory (ask me to tell how it feels) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc7
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17131
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton1.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33109&poet=6838&num=14&total=34 |
Memphis | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc6 |
Mercy (poems) | 2004 | Collection | |
Miss Rosie (when I watch you) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15600
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton14.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17132
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33094&poet=6838&num=15&total=34 |
Moonchild | | Poem | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17133
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33128&poet=6838&num=16&total=34 |
Mulberry Fields (they thought the field was wasting) | 2004 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176013 |
My Brother Fine With Me | 1975 | | |
My Dream about Being White (hey music and) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21308
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176008
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton18.html |
My Dream about the Second Coming (mary is an old woman without) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176009 |
My Friend Jacob (children) | 1980 | Book | |
My Mama Moved among the Days | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#My%20Mama%20Moved%20Among%20the%20Days
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17134
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33101&poet=6838&num=17&total=34 |
Next: New Poems | 1987 | Collection | |
Oh Antic God | 2004 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176012 |
One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (children) | | Book | |
Poem in Praise of Menstruation (if there is a river) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#menustration%20poem
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17135
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33122&poet=6838&num=18&total=34 |
Poem to My Uterus (you uterus) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton12.html |
Praise Song (to my aunt blanche) | | Poem | http://plagiarist.com/poetry/3699/
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/3640
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/lucille_clifton/praise_song
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=83814&poet=6838&num=19&total=34 |
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 | 1991 | Collection | |
Seeker of Visions (what does this mean) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc1
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17137
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton9.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33102&poet=6838&num=20&total=34 |
Shapeshifter Poems (the legend is whispered) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#shapeshifter
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lucille_clifton/poems/5203
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17138
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33107&poet=6838&num=21&total=34 |
She Understands Me | | Poem | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17139
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33123&poet=6838&num=22&total=34 |
Sisters (me and you be sisters) | 1987 | Poem | http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lucille_clifton/poems/5168
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/6668
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21307
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/6706/
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton20.html
http://bryantmcgill.com/wiki/poetry/lucille_clifton/sisters
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=144005&poet=6838&num=23&total=34 |
Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (children) | 1970 | Book | |
Song at Midnight (brothers, this big woman) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#clift0
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17141
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton7.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33112&poet=6838&num=24&total=34 |
Sonora Beautiful (children) | 1981 | Book | |
Sorrow Song (for the eyes of the children) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179616 |
Sorrows (who would believe them winged) | 2007 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20588
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=180005 |
Telling Our Stories (the fox came every evening to my door) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc2
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17142
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton10.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33104&poet=6838&num=25&total=34 |
Ten Oxherding Pictures (poems) | 1988 | Collection | |
The Black BCs (children) | 1970 | Book | |
The Book of Light (poems) | 1993 | Collection | |
The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring (children) | 1973 | Book | |
The Garden of Delight (for some) | 1991 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176011 |
The Lost Baby Poem (the time i dropped your almost body down) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lost%20baby%20poem
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17143
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238504
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33120&poet=6838&num=26&total=34 |
The Lost Women (i need to know their names) | 1983 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21309
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17144
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33125&poet=6838&num=27&total=34 |
The Lucky Stone (children) | 1979 | Book | |
The Magic Mama | 1969 | Short Story | |
The Message of Crazy Horse (i would sit in the center of the world) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176010
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton19.html |
The Mississippi River Empties into the Gulf (and the gulf enters the sea) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#lc5
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17145
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/onlinepoems.htm
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33099&poet=6838&num=28&total=34 |
The Photograph: A Lynching | | Poem | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17146
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33127&poet=6838&num=29&total=34 |
The Terrible Stories: Poems | 1996 | Collection | |
The Times (it is hard to remain human on a day) | | Poem | http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17147
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33126&poet=6838&num=30&total=34 |
The Times They Used to Be (children) | 1974 | Book | |
There Is a Girl Inside | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#There%20is%20a%20girl%20inside
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17148
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33121&poet=6838&num=31&total=34 |
Three Wishes (children) | 1976 | Book | |
To a Dark Moses (you are the one) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#dark%20moses
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17149
http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton8.html
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33108&poet=6838&num=32&total=34 |
To My Last Period (well girl, goodbye) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton13.html |
Two-Headed Woman (poems) | 1980 | Collection | |
Voices (poems) | 2008 | Collection | |
What the Mirror Said (listen) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton15.html |
Wishes for Sons (i wish them cramps) | 1987 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/lucilleclifton16.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17150
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15601
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179617
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33098&poet=6838&num=33&total=34 |
Wont You Celebrate with Me | 1993 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/clifton/poems-LC.html#clift2
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181377
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lucille-Clifton/17151
http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=33114&poet=6838&num=34&total=34 |