• 'homage to my hips' by Lucile Clifton

  • Aug 13 2023
  • Length: 2 mins
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'homage to my hips' by Lucile Clifton

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  • Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in DePew, New York, and grew up in Buffalo. She studied at Howard University, before transferring to SUNY Fredonia, near her hometown. She was discovered as a poet by Langston Hughes , and Hughes published Clifton's poetry in his highly influential anthology, The Poetry of the Negro (1970). A prolific and widely respected poet, Lucille Clifton’s work emphasizes endurance and strength through adversity, focusing particularly on African-American experience and family life. You can read the poem here-

    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49487/homage-to-my-hips
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