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May 12 min read
The Clifton House Welcomes Jenné Afiya Matthews!
Photograph by Naomieh Jovin ANNOUNCEMENT: The Clifton House is excited to introduce Jenné Afiya Matthews as the newest addition to our...
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Feb 132 min read
Announcing The Clifton House's First Staff Hire
PRESS RELEASE: The Clifton House is delighted to announce Joël Diaz has been appointed as the organization’s first Director of Programs....
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Apr 28, 20231 min read
Gayle Danley on Lucille Clifton and The House
“It makes sense that I’m writing this on Resurrection Monday, since each time I step inside the Clifton House, it feels like something...
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Sidney Clifton
Apr 16, 20221 min read
Kazim Ali offers course in Lucille Clifton’s work
Long time friend and fellow poet Kazim Ali has structured a 4 week explorative course in Lucille Clifton’s work. Introduction to the...
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Feb 12, 20223 min read
Maternal Identity: Odes and Elegies
Maternal Identity: Odes and Elegies …i am not grown away from you The maternal-fetal bond is a powerful and age-old phenomenon. A...
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Jan 23, 20223 min read
Growing Up Clifton
Categorizing 1960s America has become a favorite past-time over the years. Whether for those of us who lived through it, or the ones who...
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Sidney Clifton
Jan 11, 20221 min read
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the...
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Sidney Clifton
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Songs of Their Selves: On Lucille Clifton’s “Generations”
Songs of Their Selves: On Lucille Clifton’s “Generations” By Maddie Crum An account of Lucille Clifton’s exploration of her family in...
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Sep 2, 20212 min read
Lucille Clifton: A Mother’s Voice…
“…my girls my girls my almost me my dearest girls my more than me…” There was always a girlish twinkle in her eye when she read her work...
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Sidney Clifton
Aug 23, 20211 min read
"we will wear new bones again"
Welcome to the relaunch of the Clifton House website. Here you will find work and words from diverse voices from our growing community....
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