Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

7:00 PM

Join us for a celebration of Lucille Clifton’s life and work on the occasion of BOA Editions’ posthumous publication of her Collected Poems. Welcomed by Tonya Foster, and introduced by coeditor Michael Glaser, thirteen world-class poets will read in tribute. With poets Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Tonya Foster, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Marie Howe, Dante Micheaux, Sharon Olds, and Tracy K. Smith. With musical interludes by mezzo-sopranoAlicia Hall Moran.

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