Lucille Clifton reads “The Thirty Eighth Year”
While visiting Pearl London's class, Lucille Clifton--with tenderness, weight, a slight sadness--read her poem "The Thirty Eighth Year," which, as she tells the class, was the only poem of hers ever to be rejected.
Here's the audio:
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The Thirty Eighth Year
