Elaine Philip of Buffalo, N.Y., said the former poet laureate of Maryland passed away Saturday morning at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
Clifton, who was also a distinguished professor of humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland until her retirement in 2008, often wrote on race, gender and the importance of family and community in the face of economic oppression.
from PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: Poet Lucille Clifton Dies at Age 73
also PBS: Newshour: Poet Lucille Clifton Dies After Cancer Battle
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