Lucille Clifton

September 3, 2025

“Praise Song” by Lucille Clifton read by Sher Schwartz

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Lucille Clifton
June 28, 2024

“flowers” by Lucille Clifton

Afterward for Lucille Clifton’s “flowers” by Sher Schwartz Click below to read Lucille Clifton’s “flowers” To learn more about Lucille Clifton and her work click below: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton Continue reading

Afterward, Sher’s Voice

flowers, Lucille Clifton, weeds

About Me

“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.

Lucille Clifton

“Praise Song” by Lucille Clifton read by Sher Schwartz

“flowers” by Lucille Clifton