The Clifton House Welcomes Jenné Afiya Matthews!
Photograph by Naomieh Jovin ANNOUNCEMENT: The Clifton House is excited to introduce Jenné Afiya Matthews as the newest addition to our...
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- Feb 13
- 2 min
Announcing The Clifton House's First Staff Hire
PRESS RELEASE: The Clifton House is delighted to announce Joël Diaz has been appointed as the organization’s first Director of Programs....
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- Apr 28, 2023
- 1 min
Gayle Danley on Lucille Clifton and The House
“It makes sense that I’m writing this on Resurrection Monday, since each time I step inside the Clifton House, it feels like something...
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Sidney Clifton
- Apr 17, 2022
- 1 min
Kazim Ali offers course in Lucille Clifton’s work
Long time friend and fellow poet Kazim Ali has structured a 4 week explorative course in Lucille Clifton’s work. Introduction to the...
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- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Maternal Identity: Odes and Elegies
Maternal Identity: Odes and Elegies …i am not grown away from you The maternal-fetal bond is a powerful and age-old phenomenon. A...
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- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Growing Up Clifton
Categorizing 1960s America has become a favorite past-time over the years. Whether for those of us who lived through it, or the ones who...
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Sidney Clifton
- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the...
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Sidney Clifton
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
Songs of Their Selves: On Lucille Clifton’s “Generations”
Songs of Their Selves: On Lucille Clifton’s “Generations” By Maddie Crum An account of Lucille Clifton’s exploration of her family in...
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- Sep 2, 2021
- 2 min
Lucille Clifton: A Mother’s Voice…
“…my girls my girls my almost me my dearest girls my more than me…” There was always a girlish twinkle in her eye when she read her work...
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Sidney Clifton
- Aug 23, 2021
- 1 min
"we will wear new bones again"
Welcome to the relaunch of the Clifton House website. Here you will find work and words from diverse voices from our growing community....
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