Youtube link Published on Aug 21, 2014
Elizabeth Alexander delivers the 2012 Blaney Lecture at Poets Forum presented by the Academy of American Poets.
Alexander's New Yorker article "Remembering Lucille Clifton" Feb. 17, 2010
Elizabeth Alexander spoke at President Obamas first inauguration |
Lucille Clifton (1937-2010) |
In the Blarney Lecture, according to Alexander, Clifton believed:
To be human is to tell the truth,
To be human is to stand in a circle
with other human beings
and hold their hands.
Lesson on Lucille Clifton's "won't you celebrate with me"
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