![]() ![]() In 1967, the Cliftons moved to Baltimore, Maryland. In 1966, Reed took some of Clifton's poems to Langston Hughes, who included them in his anthology The Poetry of the Negro. Fred and Lucille Clifton starred in the group's version of The Glass Menagerie, which was called "poetic and sensitive" by the Buffalo Evening News. Writer Ishmael Reed introduced Lucille to Clifton while he was organizing the Buffalo Community Drama Workshop. Lucille and her husband had six children together, and she worked as a claims clerk in the New York State Division of Employment, Buffalo (1958ā60), and then as literature assistant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. ![]() In 1958, Lucille Sayles married Fred James Clifton, a professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and a sculptor whose carvings depicted African faces. She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo). ![]() Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. ![]() Lucille Clifton (Jā February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. ![]()
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