Amber Lopez Mr. Rodriguez English III Period 7 8 March 2015 The Woman Who Made Her Voice Heard Lucille Clifton was the first African American to receive the Shelley Memorial Prize and the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She based her writings on African American viewpoints and would describe how life was in their shoes. She had many struggles throughout her life and still managed to work hard and make her voice heard. She was awarded many times
Postmodern/Modernist poet enables that feeling through her heart felt inspired poetry. Bio/Background Lucille Clifton, born Thelma Lucille Sayles a famous poet and writer were born in Depew New York 1936. Neither of her parents had much education strive hard everyday to make a better living for their family. Lucille’s mother wrote poems to read to all four of her children as a hobby around the house. As Clifton got older she started to write poetry of her own, using her great grandmother as most of her poems inspiration
The Poetry of Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in the year of 1929. Rich grew up in a household as she describes it as ” …white, middle-class, full of books, and with a father who encouraged her to write” (Daniel). Her father Arnold Rich was a doctor and a pathology professor and her mother, Helen Jones Rich , was a pianist and a composer. “Adrienne Rich recalls her growing-up years clearly dominated by the intellectual presence and demands of the male in the family, her
and a Civil Rights Activist and is most known for her 1969 memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” This memoir made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. In 1971, Angelou published the Pulitzer Prize nominated poetry collection. She was an author, actress, singer, screenwriter, dancer and poet. She was born Marguerite Annie Johnson. Angelou had a difficult childhood growing up in St. Louis, Missouri for some time, until her parents divorced. They divorced
Elizabeth Rich. Her father, Arnold was the Pathology Chairman at the John Hopkins Medical School, with her mother being a composer and concert pianist before she married. Her father had always encouraged her to read and write her own stories and mostly poetry, gaining knowledge from his library that was stacked full with John Keats, William Blake, Matthew Arnold and more. Adrienne and her younger sister were homeschooled by their mother, after their father had planned to create a prodigy out of Adrienne