RIP Lucille Clifton

Rest in Peace, Lucille Clifton, award-winning African American poet who died yesterday at age 76.

Here she is reading two poems at the Dodge Poetry Festival in 2008:


And...

Homage to My Hips, by Lucille Clifton

these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top