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Bulletins by Gretchen on Thursday 10 May 2007 at 10:54 am

Lucille Clifton is the winner of the 2006 Lilly Poetry Prize and $100,000 stipend. Known for her multi-layered poetry that is both complicated and straightforward, musical and staccato, Clifton is the first African-American woman to win the prize, which will be presented at a ceremony in Chicago on May 23.

“Homage to My Hips” is among her most famous poems.

But my favorite is the political and musical “Mulberry Fields.”

Click here for a list of previous Lilly Award winners.

About the Prize: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Awarded annually, the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the Prize is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and is one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language.

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