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[patty (pattypax]

HI,  This Tuesday, March 16, the salon will celebrate the recently  
deceased poet, Lucille Clifton.

In a 1995 interview Clifton says this, "In this culture females have  
not even had permission to be poets until fairly recently.  As an  
African American person, I'm fortunate in being outside those  
boundaries of definition, so I could be whatever.  I mean, no one  
thought I was going to be a poet anyway.  As a rule in this culture  
those boundaries about what one is supposed to be as a visible human  
being didn't include people of African descent, so I ignored them."

You can find her poetry on the web, and on Bill Moyers' Journal on  
pbs.org.

Thanks,

patty