![]() ![]() Any time anybody carries their complexities and shares how they think, feel through, and try to make sense or undo sense in the world helps us as readers be and imagine more world. We are so lucky any time anybody speaks with their full voice and questions-it’s a gift to humanity. Why is opening this space for women poets of color so important? I think of her legacy as opening up space for herself and for others to live and breathe by-so it feels so right that these selections exist because it’s part of what she did in her poems and in her life. And I think about how profoundly she told the truth of her life when it was shunned or taboo to talk about abortion or illness or race or whiteness. I think of her as somebody who was always opening up space-whether it was in her poems or at a reading or around a table-and making space for stories. How do you see these selections carrying forward Lucille Clifton’s legacy? Aracelis Girmay (Credit: Richard Louissaint) ![]()
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