Works by and about Lucille Clifton

By River, By Rail. Prod. Terry Todesco, dir. Jay Francis. Audiovisual Recording. Films
for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994 & 1998.

"A Chair for My Mother." Reading Rainbows vol. 20. Narr. LeVar Burton. Audiovisual Recording. GNP, 1977 & 1983.

Clifton, Lucille. All of Us Are All of Us. Detroit: Broadside, 1974.

- - -. All Us Come Cross the Water. New York: Holt, 1973.

- - -. Amifika. New York: Dutton, 1977.

- - -. The Black BC's. New York: Dutton, 1970.

- - -. The Book of Light. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 1993.

- - -. The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring. New York: Dutton, 1988. New York: Dutton, 1973.

- - -. A Celebration of Sterling A. Brown, American Poet & Cultural Worker. Sound Recording. 1998.

- - -. Dear Creator: A Week of Poems for Young People and Their Teachers. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

- - -. Don't You Remember? New York: Dutton, 1973.

- - -. Everett Anderson's 1-2-3. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. New York: Holt, 1977.

- - -. Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming. New York: Holt, 1971. New York: Holt, 1991.

- - -. Everett Anderson's Friend. New York: Holt, 1976. New York: Holt, 1992.

- - -. Everett Anderson's Goodbye. New York: Holt, 1983.

- - -. Everett Anderson's Nine Month Long. New York: Holt, 1978.

- - -. Everett Anderson's Year. New York: Holt, 1974. New York: Holt, 1992.

- - -. For the Lame. Buffalo: Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1995.

- - -. Generations: A Celebration in Prose. New York: Random, 1976.

- - -. Good News About the Earth: New Poems. New York: Random, 1972.

- - -. Good Times: Poems. New York: Random, 1969.

- - -. Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980. Brockport, NY: BOA, 1987.

- - -. Good, Says Jerome. New York: Dutton, 1973.

- - -. Here Is Another Bone to Pick with You. Minneapolis: Toothpaste, 1981.

- - -. Interview with Charles Osgood. Sunday Morning. Sound Recording. CBS. 30 Sept. 1990.

- - -. Interview with Claire McInerny and Sarah Nagle. All About Kids! Audiovisual Recording. Hennepin County Library, 1988.

- - -. Interview with Jack Foley. Sound Recording. KPFA, Berkeley. 1 Oct. and 2 Apr. 1989.

- - -. Interview with Mary Kleinhans. Sound Recording. Archive/Manuscript Control, 1976.

- - -. Interview with Rebekah Presson. Sound Recording. New Letters on the Air: "Contemporary Writers on Radio." University of Missouri.

- - -. Interview. "Maine Scholar Finds Wisdom in the I Ching." Maine Things Considered. Sound Recording. Maine Public Broadcasting, Portland. 5 & 6 Feb. 1992.

- - -. Lucille Clifton Reading Her Poems in the Recording Laboratory, May 17, 1972. Sound Recording. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1972.

- - -. Lucille Clifton Reading. Rec. 30 Nov. 1989. Sound Recording. Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, 1989.

- - -. Lucille Clifton: Poetry and Prose Readings. Audiovisual Recording. San Francisco: American Poetry Archive, 1987.

- - -. The Lucky Stone. New York: Delacorte, 1979.

- - -. A Meditation on Ten Oxherding Pictures. Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts, 1988.

- - -. My Brother Fine With Me. New York: Holt, 1975.

- - -. My Friend Jacob. New York: Dutton, 1980.

- - -. Next: New Poems. Brockport, NY: BOA, 1987.

- - -. El Nino Que No Creia en la Primavera. New York: Dutton, 1976. Trans. Alma Flor Ada. Trans. of The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring. New York: Dutton, 1973.

- - -. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random, 1974.

- - -. Poetry and Prose Reading. Rec. 2 Apr. 1987. Sound Recording. San Francisco: American Poetry Archive, 1987.

- - -. Poetry Reading. Lucille Clifton. Audiovisual Recording. Pennsylvania College of Technology, 1991.

- - -. Poetry Reading. Lucille Clifton. Rec. 21 May 1996. Audiovisual Recording. Foundation, 1996.

- - -. Poetry Reading. Rec. 3 May 1983. Sound Recording. Academy of American Poets, 1983.

- - -. Poetry Reading. The Place for Keeping. Sound Recording. Rec. Oct. 1974 and Apr. 1977. J. Norton, 1979.

- - -. Quilting: Poems, 1987-1990. Brockport, NY: BOA, 1991.

- - -. Selected Poems. Minneapolis: Tunheim Santrizos, 1996.

- - -. Some of the Days of Everett Anderson. New York: Holt, 1970.

- - -. Sonora Beautiful. New York: Dutton, 1981.

- - -. The Terrible Stories. London: Slow Dancer, 1998.

- - -. The Terrible Stories: Poems. Brockport, NY: BOA, 1996.

- - -. Three Wishes. New York: Viking, 1976. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

- - -. The Times They Used to Be. New York: Holt, 1974.

- - -. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: U of Massachussetts P, 1980.

- - -. "What the Mirror Said." Poetry Baltimore: Poems About a City. Baltimore: WordHouse, 1997.

Hoo-Doo 5: Special Woman's Issue. DeRidder, LA: Energy BlackSouth, 1976.

The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets. Come Celebrate With Me. Audiovisual Recording/Sound Recording. Public Affairs Television, Newbridge Communications, 1995.

Lucille Clifton and Owen Dodson Reading and Discussing Their Poems in the Coolidge

Auditorium, Mar. 26, 1973. Sound Recording. Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1973.

Lucille Clifton. Audiovisual Recording. Merrill Video, 1990 & 1995.

Lucille Clifton. Dir. Dan Griggs. Audiovisual Recording.1996.

Lucille Clifton. Prod. and dir. Lewis Mac Adams and John Dorr. Audiovisual Recording. Lannan Foundation, 1991.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 1986 Convocation. Audiovisual Recording. Audio-Visual Services, Media Services, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986.

Poet to Poet -- A Conversation About the Writing Life Between Lucille Clifton, Former Maryland Poet Laureate, and Carolyn Kizer, 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner. Prod. CreatiVideo. Audiovisual Recording. 1986.

Poetvision Presents Lucille Clifton. Rec. 17 Mar. 1988. Audiovisual Recording. Rohm and Haas, 1988.

The Power of the Word: Where the Soul Lives. Narr. Bill D. Moyers. Audiovisual

Recording. University of California, Riverside Media Resources. PBS. WHYY, Philadelphia. 1989.

Walker, Gwyneth. "Bones, Be Good!" English words by Lucille Clifton. Dreams and Dances. Boston: ECS, 1993.

Where Poems Come From. Audiovisual Recording. Lannan Foundation, 1991.

Who's in Charge of Lincoln? and The Lucky Stone. Prod. John Robbins, Positive Image Productions, Inc. Audiovisual Recording. Agency for Instructional Television, 1982.

The Writing Life. A Conversation with Carolyn Kizer and Lucille Clifton. Rec. 5 & 6 Oct. 1985. Audiovisual Recording. Society, 1985.

The Writing Life. Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 1976-84, Talks with Roland Flint, National Poetry Series Winner, 1990. Dir. Susan Davis. Audiovisual Recording.1991.

The Writing Life: Lucille Clifton Hosts Linda Pastan. Rec. 13 Dec. 1991. Audiovisual Recording. Society, 1992.

The Writing Life: Roland Flint Hosts Lucille Clifton. Dir. Susan Davis. Rec. 3 May 1991. Audiovisual Recording. Society, 1991.

Ansporte-Easton, Jean. "Healing Our Wounds: The Direction of Difference in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Judith Johnson." Mid-American Review 14.2 (1994): 78-87.

- - -. "'She Made Herself Again': The Maternal Impulse as Poetry." 13th Moon: A

Feminist Literary Magazine 9:1-2 (1991): 116-135.

Bryant, Thema. "A Conversation with Lucille Clifton." SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 2.1 (1985): 52.

Carver, Ann Cathey. "Black Music." Prairie Schooner 45.3 (1971): 272-273.

Davenport, Doris. Four Contemporary Black Women Poets: Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, & Sherley Anne Williams (A Feminist Study of a Culturally Derived Poetics). Diss. U of Southern California, 1985. Ann Arbor: DAI, 1987. 47:7, 2583A.

Fink, Thomas. "Poets against Marginilization." Minnesota Review (Fall 1994-Spring 1995): 43+.

Hacker, Marilyn. "A Pocketful of Poets." Women's Review of Books 5.10-11 (1988): 23-24.

Hull, Akasha Gloria. "Channeling the Ancestral Muse: Lucille Clifton and Dolores Kendrick." Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. Ed. Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994. Rpt. in

Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Ed. Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helene Moglen. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997.

Jackson, Angela. "Poetry: Good News about the Earth." Black World 22.4 (1973): 77-78.

Johnson, Dianne. "The Chronicling of an African-American Life and Consciousness: Lucille Clifton's Everett Anderson." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 14 (1989): 174-178.

- - -. Perspectives on Unity and the African Diaspora: Examples from the Children's Literature of Clifton and Rosa Guy: Sponsored by the College of Education and the College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, May 31 to June 3, 1990. Work and Play in Children's Literature: Selected Papers from the 1990 International Conference of the Children's Literature Association. Pleasantville, NY: Pace U, 1990.

Johnson, Joyce. "The Theme of Celebration in Lucille Clifton's Poetry." Pacific Coast Philology 18.1-2 (1983): 70-76.

Jong, Erica. "Three Sisters." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 1.1 (1972): 77-88.

Kuzma, Greg. Rev. of Next, by Lucille Clifton. Georgia Review 42 (1988): 628-630.

Laing, E.K. "Making Each Word Count." Christian Science Monitor 5 Feb. 1988: B3.

- - -. "The Voice of a Visionary, Not a Victim." Christian Science Monitor 5 Feb. 1988: B3.

Lazer, Hank. "Blackness Blessed: The Writings of Lucille Clifton." Southern Review 25 (1989): 760-770.

Madhubuti, Haki. "Lucille Clifton: Warm Water, Greased Legs, and Dangerous Poetry." Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1984.

McCluskey, Audrey T. "Tell the Good News: A View of the Works of Lucille Clifton." Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1984.

Mills, Ralph J., Jr. "Six Poets." Poetry 122 (1973): 105-110.

Musher, Andrea Susan. Vital Connections: The Poetics of Maternal Affiliation in Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton and Judy Grahn. Diss. U of

Wisconsin-Madison, 1989. Ann Arbor: DAI, 1990. 50:10, 3228A.

Muske, Carol. "Ourselves as History." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 4.2 (1976): 111-121.

"Notes on Current Books: Generations: A Memoir." Virginia Quarterly Review 52 (1976): 112-113.

Ostriker, Alicia. "Kin and Kin: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton." American Poetry Review 22.6 (1993): 41-48. Rpt. in Literary Influence and African-American Writers. Ed. Tracy Mishkin. New York: Garland, 1996.

Plant, Deborah. Rev. of Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980, by Lucille Clifton. Prairie Schooner 63.1 (1989): 115-117.

Price, Reynolds. Rev. of Generations: A Memoir. New York Times Book Review 14 Mar. 1976: 7-8.

Rosenberg, Liz. "Simply American and Mostly Free." New York Times Book Review 19 Feb. 1989: 24.

Rosten, Norman. "SR Reviews Books: 'Good News about Earth.'" Saturday Review 55.33 (1972): 58.

Rushing, Andrea Benton. "Lucille Clifton: A Changing Voice for Changing Times; Prepared Under Auspices of Center for Research on Women, Stanford Univ." Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Diane Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1985.

Scarupa, Harriet Jackson. "Lucille Clifton: Making the World 'Poem-Up.'" Ms. Oct. 1976: 118+.

Vendler, Helen. "A Quarter of Poetry." New York Times Book Review 6 Apr. 1975: 4+.

Waniek, Marilyn Nelson. "Black Silence, Black Songs." Callaloo 6 (1983): 156-165.

Weeks, Ramona. "A Gathering of Poets." Western Humanities Review 24 (1970): 295-301.

White, Mark Bernard. "Sharing the Living Light: Rhetorical, Poetic, and Social Identity in Lucille Clifton." College Language Association Journal 40 (1997): 288-304.

Worsham, Fabian Clements. "The Poetics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985." Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th-Century Literature. Austin: U of Texas P, 1996.