Will Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Sunday's poems on Penny's Poetry Blog:
2 poems from September's Song, by Lucille Clifton
thunder and lightning and our world
is another place
[...]
the st. marys river flows
as if nothing has happened
[...]
(read by Clifton)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/09/from-septembers-song-lucille-clifton.html
Nice selection, GJD.
Thanks, Will. I was very happy to find it in /Voices/. For one thing, it was a perfect segue poem
between the 9/11 poems and the "normal life" poems from later in the month.
Then there was that great PBS video of Clifton reading the exact same two parts of the poem
that /Voices/ had printed. How lucky can one get?
And there's the whole "identity politics" angle. I'm not a fan of that, but I'm sure it concerns
my readers, so it concerns me. PPB is not a blog for poetry by white males, but for poets
of every variety of human. I want that made clear to my readers, and poems and (especially)
videos like Clifton's help me make it.
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