Watch Lucille Clifton at the O.B. Hardison Poetry Board reading in 2008
Lucille Clifton gives the Poetry Board Reading in which she was honored and shared her favorite poems by other authors, as well as her own work.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)An introduction to the love sonnets of the female poets of the Renaissance, including Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Lady Mary Wroth.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.
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